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Signs like this one in the Bay State dining hall highlight Boston University Dining Services’ efforts to source food locally. PHOTO BY FELIX PHILLIPS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Campus embraces health foods, experts analyze GMOs’ effects

Olivia Ritter September 20, 2018
Boston University Dining Services promotes its locally-sourced process in signs in dining halls and its website, and this summer, non-GMO restaurant Life Alive created buzz on campus when it opened a location on Commonwealth Avenue. From East to West at BU, initiatives to offer healthy, organic food abound.
EDITORIAL: New app simplifies birth control, eliminates doctors

EDITORIAL: New app simplifies birth control, eliminates doctors

Editors January 26, 2016

Vagina owners, rejoice — birth control is now easier than ever to get ahold of. Nurx is a new app that allows women to order birth control and have it delivered to their doors, according to the app’s...

GAMADES: Eliminating proper abortion care creates public health crisis

GAMADES: Eliminating proper abortion care creates public health crisis

Lucy Gamades November 24, 2015

The summer before my senior year of high school, I vividly remember staying up the night of June 25 to watch a live feed of the Texas Senate. I wasn’t even in Texas (my home state) at the time — I...

Councilors propose change to health insurance

Daily Free Press Admin April 16, 2014

Boston City Councilors Michelle Wu and Ayanna Pressley released a proposal Monday, backed by Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, to include gender reassignment surgery in the health insurance coverage plans...

BUSM prof. researches new drug to prevent opioid overdose

Daily Free Press Admin November 26, 2012

Medical clinicians and researchers are promoting new techniques, especially the life-saving drug naloxene to fight drug overdoses, according to a Boston University School of Medicine press release published...

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