Now, a new study provides striking data about the number of people who carry loaded handguns in public. In the first investigation of its kind in more than 20 years, researchers from the University of Washington School of Public Health, the University of Colorado, the Harvard School of Public Health, and Northeastern University found that […]

A whole lot of people in America might be packing pistols. A group of researchers including academics from Harvard and Northeastern universities has estimated that 3 million adult handgun owners carry a loaded gun every day, with the vast majority saying they do it for protection. Handgun owners who carry tended to be younger, to […]

The new research, authored by researchers at Harvard University, Northeastern University, the University of Washington, and the University of Colorado, paints a portrait of the American handgun carrier. He is most likely to be a conservative, middle-aged white male, living in a suburban Southern community, who was raised around guns and cites self-protection as the […]

“It makes complete sense that in a context of suppressed prescription drug supplies, people are starting on alternative sources of opioids,” added Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, who noted that without addressing factors that really drive demand like inequality, unemployment, mental illness and despair, substitution is […]

The eventual collapse of the ISIS “caliphate” was inevitable, according to Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University.

This weekend, 1,200 college and university students from around the world came together for the 2017 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting, hosted by the Clinton Foundation and Northeastern University.

Boston police officer Joseph Nee was recently indicted for stealing money from the department’s evidence room, and just yesterday, a report surfaced detailing that the state Office of Alcohol Testing withheld information in regard to flawed breathalyzer test results, which could affect DUI cases. WGBH’s Morning Edition anchor Joe Mathieu spoke about these developments with […]

“In was in 1992 when 100 million containers moved through all the world’s ports, then in 1998, we went to 200 million,” said Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University in Boston. “Roughly we’re at a little over 600 million today.

New digital technology created by researchers, including Northeastern professor Rupal Patel, allows people without a voice to sound like themselves for the first time.

At the Clinton Foundation, we are proud to work with and support many young idealists in action, including through the student community of the Clinton Global Initiative University, or CGI U. This weekend, more than 1,000 student leaders from 282 schools and 95 countries gathered at Northeastern University for CGI U’s 10th annual meeting to […]

The AHA did not account for the giant tax break hospitals get on their property, “which is just a joke,” said Craig Garthwaite, a health economist at Northwestern University. “Exclusion of property taxes would be a very major problem,” added Gary Young, a health policy professor at Northeastern University who has studied tax exemptions for […]

Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy served under President Obama. He left that post this past spring after the Trump administration called on him to resign. Before becoming a surgeon general, Murthy worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and this weekend he joined a panel discussion at the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative […]