Up to now, the FDA has moved cautiously on opioids, doing little beyond requiring “black box” warnings for the most dangerous painkillers in 2013 and 2016 and sending a open letter to ask prescribers to “ensure they have adequate training in opioid therapy” in 2013. “A lot of reasons why things have taken so long […]

Chances are, you know somebody who switched to a standing desk after reading those sobering studies about how bad sitting is for your health. The problem is, though, ergonomic guidelines for using the desks are scant, so arranging them can involve a lot of guesswork. Jack Dennerlein, a professor in the Northeastern University Department of […]

Justice Stephen Breyer may be the only current member of the Supreme Court to have argued that the inevitably long delays death row prisoners suffer before execution is a significant factor leading to the unconstitutionality of the death penalty but his persistence in arguing for this position has provoked passionate rejoinders. Just recently Breyer dissented […]

In the early days of computing, developers were often jacks of all trades, handling virtually any task needed for software to get made. As the field matured, jobs grew more specialized. Now we’re seeing a similar pattern in a brand-new domain: big data. That’s according to P.K. Agarwal, regional dean and CEO of Northeastern University’s […]

Terrorism is clearly reprehensible. Yet media reports and politicians often present terrorist attacks as if they are less calculated than they really are. Scientific research shows that this view is mistaken. Terrorism scholars have found that, leaving aside the question of immorality, there is an internal political logic to terrorist attacks — although they are […]

There is a massive transformation taking place around the world. Our leading corporations are going global. Health and medicine and film are going global. And you don’t have to be great at math to understand that our economy can’t grow if we don’t sell things to the 95 percent of the world’s customers who live in […]

Jack Levin, a criminologist and professor emeritus at Northeastern University, said critics could argue that prosecutors might have a vested interest in punishing offenders for their drug abuse simply because they benefit. “Whether you can prove that with statistics is another thing,” he said. District attorneys, though, like the idea of taking illegally earned money […]

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addressed issues that include climate change, disease and terrorism and touched on the upcoming presidential election while speaking at Northeastern University’s commencement ceremony. Kerry made a quip regarding Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump early in his speech as he mentioned the diversity of the graduating class, noting that students […]

Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday told a graduating class of college students that they are “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare,” according to the Wall Street Journal. “You are the most diverse class in Northeastern’s history. In other words, you are Donald Trump’s worst nightmare,” he said during a commencement address at Northeastern University.

While the discussion in Britain about antisemitism and the limits of acceptable criticism of Israel is important, Israelis and Palestinians continue to kill and wound each other. The preoccupation with ignorant and offensive statements and Facebook posts of Labour politicians won’t stop anyone’s suffering in the Holy Land. Perhaps part of the reason we’ve become […]

Boston​.com: Northeastern students killed in Dubai crash honored at commencement ceremony As he looked out at the thousands of students set to graduate from Northeastern University on Friday, President Joseph E. Aoun pointed out empty seats where two members of the Northeastern community should’ve been. “Your classmates Victoria McGrath and Priscilla Perez Torres earned their […]

Time: Read John Kerry’s Northeastern University Commencement address Secretary of State John Kerry gave the commencement address at Northeastern University on Friday, describing the graduating class—which he said is the most diverse in the university’s history—as “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.” Later in his speech, Kerry appeared to reference Trump’s promise to build a wall along […]