Health

You’ve grown up. Now chocolate milk has, too.

Manny Lubin and Josh Belinsky launched their company, Slate, to modernize the classic beverage and make it more appealing to adults. The Northeastern graduates said…

by Greg St. Martin February 12, 2019

She’s studying the detriments of digitally altered photos

Applied psychology professor Rachel Rodgers appeared on NBC’s The Today Show to discuss the detrimental impact digitally altered photos have on our self-esteem and our…

by Khalida Sarwari January 24, 2019

Real news. Fake fish.

An investigation by the New York State attorney general's office and Northeastern's Ocean Genome Legacy Center has shown that species are misidentified in more than…

by Laura Castañón December 18, 2018

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

In search of a drug to 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