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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Beth Israel and Dana Farber announced a plan for a $1.68 billion dollar cancer hospital exacerbating concerns about Dana Farber’s split from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. XIAOYA SHAO/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women’s split sparks questions for future

Anna Rubenstein October 20, 2023
Through a collaboration between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a plan to build a $1.68 billion cancer hospital in Boston was unveiled last week, exacerbating concerns among patients, their families and employees as they seek to understand how the partnership will impact their lives. 
BUPD

Campus Crime Logs: Jan. 26 – 30

Bailey Scott February 1, 2023
Reports taken from the Boston University Police Department’s crime logs from Jan. 26-30.
Child holding a sign reading "Recovery deserves dignity"

Activists, addiction experts share thoughts on Mass/Cass during National Recovery Month

Madison Mercado September 9, 2021
Mass/Cass, a center of the opioid epidemic in Boston, sparks debate during National Recovery month.
Police officers deploying a chemical agent

Councilors retry chemical, projectile crowd control reform

Daniel Kool February 26, 2021
The proposed restriction would that police use chemical weapons and impact projectiles only if a supervising officer witnesses violence or destruction of property and determines the situation cannot be controlled or de-escalated.
Lena Papadakis, a pre-medical senior in Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, founded Preemie to Pre-Med, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting child life departments in New England hospitals. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sargent student’s childhood hospitalization leads her to launch nonprofit

Cameron Morsberger November 3, 2020
Lena Papadakis was born 32 weeks premature. But out of this distress, she is now giving back to the very programs that saved her life.
Moderna is in the third phase of its mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, which is currently undergoing nationwide testing. COURTESY OF ANGELO ESSLINGER VIA PIXABAY

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine study progressing in final phase of testing

Emily Stevenson October 14, 2020
A Cambridge-based biotech company’s coronavirus vaccine study at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital is “running smoothly,” according to researchers working on the testing.
East to West: Oct. 5, 2020

East to West: Oct. 5, 2020

Justin Tang October 5, 2020

On today’s episode of East to West, we discuss how two BU alumni who will be wed at BU beach, BU’s recent postponing of its immunization clinic, reactions to a COVID outbreak at Brigham and Women’s...

Hospital employees looked out the window of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Longwood while fighter jets passed by in solidarity with health care workers on May 6. Brigham and Women’s Hospital identified a cluster of COVID-19 cases among both staff and patients last week. LAURYN ALLEN/ DFP FILE

COVID-19 cluster at Brigham and Women’s Hospital raises safety concerns

James Paleologopoulos October 1, 2020
Twelve patient and 33 employee cases have been linked to the cluster.
GALLERY: F-15 jets fly over hospitals in solidarity with health care workers

GALLERY: F-15 jets fly over hospitals in solidarity with health care workers

Lauryn Allen May 6, 2020

Four Massachusetts National Guard fighter jets flew over 18 hospitals across the state on Wednesday in a demonstration of support for health care workers on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19.

Boston University’s Wheelock School of Education is collaborating with three institutions to create new spring internship opportunities for students in the Child Life and Family-Centered Care Program. LUWA YIN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Wheelock adds new internship sites

David Hou February 25, 2020
Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development announced three new internship sites for their master’s of science program in child life and family-centered care Friday, according to the Wheelock website.
A recent study published by researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital found the use of marijuana may lead to a higher risk of heart attacks, arrhythmias and strokes. BETSEY GOLDWASSER/ DFP FILE ILLUSTRATION

Boston researchers find link between marijuana and cardiovascular disease

Emma Lindsey January 24, 2020
Using marijuana may increase risk of heart disease, Boston physicians discovered.
The cover of “How the Brain Lost its Mind” by neurologist Allan Ropper and lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Brian Burrell, which looks at the stigmatization surrounding mental illness. COURTESY OF GOODREADS

Massachusetts authors discuss their book which examines the history of STDs

Cameron Morsberger October 10, 2019
Allan Ropper and Brian Burrell are trying to end this stigmatization in their new book, “How the Brain Lost its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness.”
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