Exercise has the potential to stave off heart disease, diabetes, and a range of other ailments. Staying physically fit can help keep the mind sharp as well. As a professor of psychology, neuroscience and engineering, I’ve spent much of my career studying the links between physical and cognitive health. While most people are probably aware […]

Advocates hoped the health law would change this. The idea was to push these facilities to invest more in public health initiatives that do not directly earn them money. But it is hard to gauge whether that has happened. “You can find hospitals that have done this. But . . . are we seeing a real shift […]

Human emotions have confounded people for centuries, especially people who want to measure and understand them. Our next guest is one of those researchers. Her advice is think of emotions like money: very real but also created by human agreement. Northeastern University psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett says this in her new book, “How Emotions […]

The tab may not be as burdensome as you think. “Many of us have in our heads the sticker price of $30,000 to $40,000 per year for undergraduate education,” says Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University. “So we say, ‘OK, it’s two […]

Congress should continue to support President Reagan’s Superfund Research Program (SRP) in the fiscal 2017 and 2018 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations bills and restore SRP funding to the levels during the George W. Bush administration. Continued and appropriate funding of the SRP program is an important investment in education, public health and job […]

“It shouldn’t be a surprise that having a good relationship with a primary care doctor helps care coordination,” said Timothy Hoff, a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston and author of a forthcoming book titled, “Next in Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health.” “Care coordination is more about the […]

Hollywood has long had a fascination with Russia. Here & Now’s Robin Young looks at how that fascination often reflects American culture with Harlow Robinson, professor of history at Northeastern University and author of “Russians In Hollywood: Hollywood’s Russians.”

In fact, this is why there has been so little analysis of provider versus insurer plans. For our study, we had to scroll through hundreds of websites, news articles and documents to build a research data set on provider-offered plans from 2011 to 2015. Because of the work involved, there are very few studies on […]

Companies are expected to spend more than $3 trillion on workplace technology this year, buying everything from traditional servers to augmented-reality glasses. For many, those purchases will make them more efficient, more innovative—and more vulnerable to attacks on their information security. That’s because when they consider which new technology to buy, companies often base their […]

Still, Gary Young, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, says it’s safe to assume the ideology behind Romneycare could still apply in a post-ACA world. “Not only do I think Massachusetts will retain the individual health insurance mandate, I suspect some other states will as well,” he says. “[But] the […]

Assistive technologies are hailed as a way to “give voice to the voiceless.” But what exactly do we mean by giving voice? Meryl Alper is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University and the author of Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality. The book explores how that concept of ‘giving voice’ can […]

It’s no secret that listening to lectures about the history of Boston is one of my favorite pastimes. That’s why it was such a treat to attend a recent lecture at the Massachusetts Historical Society in the Fenway led by Northeastern University Professor William M. Fowler, who detailed the courageous and challenging history of the […]