Running a successful hedge fund is a challenge for anyone. But it’s especially hard for women, a recent study says. Hedge funds run by women are struggling for capital despite there being no statistically significant difference in performance between their funds and those run by men, according to new research. Part of the reason, say […]

Developing countries could stave off the spread of future deadly 
epidemics with the help of an 
Android app in the making — the brainchild of a Northeastern 
University student fighting outbreaks with the next generation of disease management. “In these countries, they’re not completely familiar with technology, but one thing they do have is cellphones,” […]

“Gun control laws are only as good as the weakest link in the national chain,” says James Alan Fox, Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University, in a telephone interview with the Monitor. “Massachusetts has strong ones, for example, New Hampshire weaker ones, so there’s nothing to stop guns crossing the border. […]

Whatever its other disappointments, the 2016 Republican nominating contest has at least done one thing that ought to bring a smile to supporters of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio alike: It brought an end to the Bush dynasty in national politics. And the Republican Party will be better for that. The Bush dynasty […]

“I think public opinion about smoking has really changed dramatically,” says Richard Daynard, a law professor and president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, also at the Northeastern University School of Law. “My students, their general attitude at this point is, ‘Why would somebody want to do that?’ Certainly that wasn’t the attitude when I […]

The idea is not without skeptics. James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University professor who studies mass shootings, said: “Some bunching just happens. Yes, there is some mimicking going on, but the vast majority of mass killers don’t need someone else to give them the idea.”

On February 3, 2016 the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit agreed to rehear the appeal inWollschlaeger v. Florida, commonly known as the case of the “docs versus the glocks.” Wollschlaegerconcerns a Florida law that bars physicians from routinely asking their patients whether they have guns or store them safely. In agreeing […]

Now, a new study by a team of researchers from Harvard and Northeastern debunks that notion, putting the spotlight squarely on firearms, which are by far the most likely risk factor responsible for increased rates of suicide in gun-owning households. Their paper, published this month in Epidemiologic Reviews, a leading public health journal, is a systematic […]