Health

A professor wants premature infants to thrive in the hospital. This simple change might help.

Emily Zimmerman, an assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, has found that infants suck more frequently when looking at an image of a woman’s…

by Laura Castañón December 10, 2018

Here’s what one graduate is doing to help students handle their medical expenses

Shortly after graduating from Northeastern in 2008, Christopher Anselmo was diagnosed with an adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy called Miyoshi Myopathy. Now, he is raising…

by Debora Almeida December 10, 2018

This drug could stop the opioid epidemic

Ganesh Thakur, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has created a chemical compound that could enhance the body’s own ability to relieve…

by Laura Castañón and Lia Petronio December 5, 2018

Students bring healthcare to patients who walk miles for medicine

Rani Viroja, Harrison Dieuveuil, and Mia Sherer worked in a medical clinic in rural Nicaragua, where doctors didn’t have enough medication to cover the 300…

by Sophia Fox-Sowell November 27, 2018

What if pictures of your brain could predict schizophrenia?

Northeastern neuroscientist Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli has found that a particular pattern of brain activity may be an early sign of schizophrenia.

by Laura Castañón November 26, 2018

Here’s how you can ‘feel better, think better, and sleep better’

Northeastern cognitive neuroscientist Chuck Hillman helped to create the federal government’s new physical fitness guidelines, which recommend that adults get at least 150 minutes of…

by Sophia Fox-Sowell November 21, 2018

‘Preparing a Thanksgiving meal is like playing Russian roulette’

You risk getting sick if you’ve already purchased a Thanksgiving turkey contaminated by salmonella but haven’t started to thaw the frozen bird, said Darin Detwiler,…

by Sophia Fox-Sowell November 20, 2018

Tracking an epidemic requires computer models. But what if those models are wrong?

Researchers at Northeastern have found that one of the basic assumptions used in disease modeling simply isn’t realistic. Now they’re looking at how epidemics travel…

by Laura Castañón November 19, 2018

The CDC confirmed that a mysterious disease is paralyzing children across the US, but where does it come from?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released an official case count for a rare neurological disease being reported across the country. The definitive…

by Aria Bracci October 18, 2018

Get a free flu shot at this health fair

Northeastern students, faculty, and staff can receive free flu shots and health screenings at a health fair on Wednesday at the university’s Boston campus. “We…

by Greg St. Martin October 9, 2018