Long-acting opioids were associated with a greater than 2-fold risk for unintentional overdose compared with short-acting formulations, according to a cohort study published onlineFebruary 16 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Moreover, the risk was more than 5-fold greater in the first 2 weeks of using a long-acting opioid. “If replicated in other cohorts, our findings suggest […]

The roots of the business go back to 2011, when Suffolk University student Zack Smith started Collegiate Contacts, a company that recruited students to work events for clients like JetBlue, Stop & Shop, and the Boston Globe (which owns this site). While Collegiate Contacts used e-mail to communicate with clients and find students willing to […]

We host Governor Mike Dukakis to get his take on the MBTA situation: What his administration did, and what the current stewards could be doing better

When I left coaching — and for the eight years that followed — Max had no opportunities to be included in groups of able-bodied people. He withdrew, and his physical condition worsened. That changed in 2013 when Max became part of Northeastern University’s men’s basketball team. A new group of players welcomed him as their […]

On Wednesday, the Northeastern University basketball team was gearing up for a big night against William and Mary. Like most top programs they have talented players, great coaches and spirited fans, but this team has something even greater. Head Coach Bill Coen says, “We were very, very fortunate to get associated with him he means […]

The winter has taken a steep toll on many small businesses and restaurants that have seen customers dwindle thanks to a broken transit system and snow days that force Bay Staters to hunker down — spurring Gov. Charlie Baker to declare this week Valentine’s Week to urge people to patronize shops and eateries. Hourly workers […]

For Adam Gibbs and Nick Bongi, the idea was born out of their shared passion for fishing. Since they were children, the two 18-year-old friends have taken an annual trip to the Gibbs family’s vacation home on Sanibel Island in Florida. “We were fishing down there one night, and we were on a dock,” Gibbs […]

Indeed, feminism, in both its theoretical and its practical applications, is well known for vicious infighting. As early as 1976, the pioneer activist Jo Freeman wrote about this phenomenon in an incendiary article in Ms. Magazine calling out “trashing” or, as she put it, the “dark side of sisterhood.” And when Ti-Grace Atkinson resigned from […]

A history professor at Northeastern University has created a new interactive graph that reveals various truths about how college students’ view female professors more negatively compared to their male counterparts. The graph compiles data from 14 million Rate My Professors reviews so the user can see which words students used to describe either male or female professors. […]

Need proof that gender bias has survived and been passed along to the millennial generation? Take a few minutes to play around with a new online tool created by someone who spends plenty of time with young adults—a professor at Northeastern University. Ben Schimdt, an assistant professor of history, invented Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews, an […]

Northeastern University built in such a regrouping period before launching its current $1 billion capital campaign in 2008. It did that, according to Joseph Donnelly, the school’s vice president for advancement, following complaints by donors after its previous campaign, which ended in 2005 and raised $200 million. “One of the things we heard at the […]

This morning I woke up to the awful news that New York Times media columnist David Carr has died at the age of 58. Carr’s Monday column, “The Media Equation,” was a ritual — all of us who watch the media for a living would check out what Carr had to say, often on Sunday […]