The bill includes several safeguards, including stipulating that the prescribing doctor bears the burden of determining whether there’s a terminal illness and whether the patient has the capability to make this decision. The bill also requires the doctor to discuss treatment alternatives with the patient, and requires a second opinion before the medicine can be prescribed. […]

Sean Gallagher researches the future of university credentials at Northeastern University. He says degrees are still “the gold standard” in educational qualifications that employers seek.

Carter, however, formally appealed her prison sentence and the decision is pending. Her sentence has been suspended until the court rules on the appeal: until then, Carter was free to leave with her family. Because she is still appealing sentence, the ambiguous response to the lawsuit makes sense, Northeastern University School of Law Professor Daniel […]

“It’s one of those unusual points on the timeline of history where you can say things changed very dramatically — in this case, in a single night,” Alan Schroeder, a media historian and associate professor at Northeastern University who authored the book “Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High-Risk TV,” told Time magazine.

Amilcar Antonio Barreto, an associate professor at Northeastern University who specializes in Puerto Rico politics, accused the Trump administration of treating the territory with an attitude of “benign neglect” and criticized the president for failing to acknowledge the humanitarian crisis unfolding there in the aftermath of Maria.

Dan Lebowitz runs the sports and society program at Northeastern University where major league teams are trained to effectively have the same conversations happening on high school ball fields. “When you look at sport, sport is one of the great unifiers,” he said. “If we can look at what happened on NFL Sunday as the […]

Northeastern University journalism students traveled to Greece from 5/8/17 to 6/13/17 with Professors Carlene Hempel and Mike Beaudet. The following students participated in the project: Olivia Arnold, Sophie Cannon, Brandon Carusillo, Luke Dean, Bradley Fargo, Isaac Feldberg, Isabelle Hahn, David Harbeck, Suma Hussien, Alexa LaVersa, Sydne Mass, Cody Mello-Klein, Paxtyn Merten, Asia Palomba, Bridget Peery, […]

The two years of increases in murders come after the national numbers hit “a level that’s as low as we’ve had in decades”, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. Fox said it was not surprising that violence might increase after many years of success in reducing murders. “Two years is not a […]

Last week, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts narrowed the application of the state felony-murder doctrine, a controversial rule that has “perplexedgenerations of law students, commentators and jurists.” Up until that decision, a person could be found guilty of felony murder in its purest form when he or she commits a felony that causes another person’s […]

We feel quant is used too narrowly in marketing research, especially in light of today’s fast computers and rich array of statistical methods for analyzing data. Owing to small sample sizes and the high measurement error associated with coding verbatim comments, qualitative research can suggest hypotheses but cannot explore them beyond a certain point. Quantitative methods […]

But Dan Lebowitz of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, said the players’ stand could win some over. “The NFL is still America’s game, people love the game and find commonality in the game,” Lebowitz said. “While visceral reactions may happen, more people will understand the scourge of racism […]

“Two years are not a reliable trend,” said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University. “In the backdrop, homicide rates in this country are at a half-century low.” For an increase to be considered a “trend” rather than an aberration, according to Fox, it would have to be observed over a period […]