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The Daily Free Press

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Highway to Health: Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill endangers health, well-being of LGBTQ youth

Bailey Salimes March 31, 2022
No student — no matter what age — should be prohibited from exploring who they are and identifying themselves.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: Food allergies are my concern — and yours

Bailey Salimes February 11, 2022
No person should feel like an annoyance or a complication because of an immune reaction they cannot control.
person sneezes into a tissue

Springtime allergies, why can’t you leave me alone?

Melina Nguyen April 29, 2021
Spring is long-awaited by many, except for the poor population who suffer from seasonal allergies.
Boston University School of Medicine Professor Robert Stern works as the director of clinical research at BU’s CTE Center and led the study. COURTESY OF ROBERT STERN

BU researchers suggest hope for finding CTE clinical diagnosis

Amelia Murray-Cooper April 25, 2019

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is an undiagnosable, incurable condition found in individuals, particularly athletes, who have suffered repetitive brain injuries. Currently, the disease can only...

Ann McKee, the BU Alzheimer's Disease Center' Associate Director and the BU CTE Center's Director, was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Ann McKee named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2018

Jenna Manto April 26, 2018
Boston University professor Ann McKee has been named one of Time Magazine’s most influential pioneers of 2018.
The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in Spain found Friday that there may be a link between sleep apnea and cancer development. ILLUSTRATION BY MADI GOLDMAN/DAILY FREE PRESS

New study suggests link between sleep apnea and cancer development

Rebecca Zeng March 15, 2016

A researcher at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in Spain presented on Friday his research that revealed a possible connection between sleep apnea and cancer development at the European Association...

EDITORIAL: Laboratory sperm could help male infertility, but stay cautious

EDITORIAL: Laboratory sperm could help male infertility, but stay cautious

Editors February 26, 2016

Baby-making just moved from the bedroom to the laboratory. Chinese scientists have turned an embryonic stem cell into a primitive sperm, known as a spermatid, and used it to fertilize a mouse egg, the...

RENNER: Dana-Farber matters to me

RENNER: Dana-Farber matters to me

Elise Renner October 1, 2015

F--- cancer. You could even get it printed on a T-shirt — although I can’t imagine why you’d want to. These words aren’t worth $24.99 plus shipping and handling. They aren’t even worth 11 characters...

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