Health

Ten things to do on Northeastern’s Boston campus for National Engineers Week

Learn how industrial engineers are fighting human trafficking. Examine robots that fly, drive, and swim. Tour labs in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex.

by David Harbeck February 15, 2019

A lesson from the US measles outbreak: Vaccines don’t just protect you—they protect everyone around you

“Most healthy people can tolerate the measles,” says Brandon Dionne, who studies infectious diseases at Northeastern. “The real risk is the groups of people who can’t, either because they have compromised immune systems or medical conditions that would otherwise prevent them from being immunized.”

by Molly Callahan February 13, 2019

Does having a gun at home really make you safer?

Northeastern professor Matthew Miller is one of the nation’s leading researchers of gun violence. In his previous career, he was on the front lines of another life-and-death battleground.

by Ian Thomsen February 13, 2019

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 their chocolate milk is low in sugar and lactose-free, contains no artificial ingredients, and can be purchased online.

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 perception of our bodies.

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 a quarter of the fish sold at New York grocery stores.

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 face. Her findings could help improve outcomes for infants born prematurely, or others who are struggling to feed.

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 money to give students registered with the Disability Resource Center monetary awards to spend on tuition, housing, or equipment to help them live independently.

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 pain well enough to replace opioids, without putting patients at risk of becoming addicted.

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 patients they treated every day.

by Sophia Fox-Sowell November 27, 2018