Judge O’Toole’s decision is something “I guarantee we’re going to be talking about in the coming years,” says Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston. And he says it may only be a matter of months before a similar debate is happening over a similarly high-profile case. Lawyers for six Baltimore police […]

However, “SSRIs appear to increase fracture risk among middle aged women without psychiatric disorders,” wrote a team led by Dr. Matthew Miller of Northeastern University in Boston. The team added that the effect seems to be “sustained over time, suggesting that shorter duration of treatment may decrease [this effect].” The study authors acknowledged that their […]

“Breaking sitting not just with standing, but movement, that’s the key piece,” says Dinesh John, assistant professor of health sciences at Northeastern University, who studies the effects of standing and treadmill desks. In his 2011 study of 12 office workers, he found nine months of using a treadmill desk helped decrease overweight and obese workers’ […]

A Northeastern University professor has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) for his work streamlining the vaccine development process. Shashi Murthy, a professor in the chemical engineering department at Northeastern, has developed a tool that can turn monocytes, the largest type of blood cell, into dendritic cells, the cells […]

Alex Rodriquez has returned to play for the New York Yankees with a flourish. Exiled from baseball for a full year based on his proven use of performance-enhancing drugs, A-Rod was not supposed to be able to rejuvenate at 39. (He will be 40 in a few weeks.) Yet he is among the club’s leaders […]

Northeastern University held a Tuesday-night event to honor the nine people slain in a Charleston, S.C., church last week. The night included music, poetry, and words from students. Former poet laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky performed with saxophone player Stan Strickland.

“Over 6 million people would have probably lost their health insurance if the court had ruled the other way,” said Northeastern University’s director of health policy and law Wendy Parmet. Parmet says people in 34 states on the federal exchanges would have been impacted. According to pro-Obamacare group Families USA, in New England that includes […]

Wendy Parmet, director of the program on health policy and law at Northeastern University, says the court ruled that when Congress drafted the ACA, they meant to implement all of those Massachusetts legs — regulations, mandated coverage, and tax credits. “What the court said here was you have to read the ACA in light of […]

In a soft voice and with his Russian accent, Tsarnaev spoke for nearly 5 minutes, beginning with words about Allah. That initial reference to Allah was followed by at least a dozen more. Tsarnaev made Islam the theme of of his remarks, and the irony was not lost Dr. Max Abrahms, a terrorism analyst from […]

“The bigger problem is going to be the knock-on effect,” said oil and gas expert Jeffery Born, professor of finance and group coordinator at D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston. North Dakota was the second-largest producer of crude oil in the nation in 2013, after Texas, according to most recent published datafrom […]

Philip D’Agati, a Northeastern University associate professor who has studied the Olympics’ effect on European cities, said opposition groups historically haven’t been good at raising money, even when public opinion seems to break their way. “It’s easy to cautiously say no to something in an opinion poll,” D’Agati said. “It’s not likely to result in […]

“It does seem like there’s been an uptick of terrorism in the Boston area and it’s of a special kind [Islamic terrorism] but we’re working with very small numbers here, ” said Northeastern University political science professor Max Abrahms. “People think they see important patterns that are not actually meaningful. I am unconvinced until the […]