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Boston Marathon 2022

Boston Marathon to allow pregnant runners to defer their race qualification

Matthew Eadie April 13, 2023
For the first time in the 127-year history of the Boston Marathon, pregnant runners will be allowed to defer their race qualification until one of the next two years, the Boston Athletic Association announced earlier this year.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Medical abortion: An overview of a safe, but opposed, procedure

Benjamin Pollock March 27, 2023
Instead of focusing on the grim reality of this attack on reproductive rights, I want to use this space to discuss the scientific facts about medical abortions and the benefits abortion access affords.
Abortion rally

Anti-abortion, abortion-rights activists rally outside State House ahead of upcoming Supreme Court decision

Daily Free Press Staff April 12, 2022
Both anti-abortion and abortion-rights advocates rallied across from the Massachusetts State House on April 9.
Sophia Flissler / DFP Staff

I Call Foul Play: Texas’ new abortion law fails both women and the rule of law

Luca Becker September 16, 2021
The Texas abortion ban is an attack not only on the constitution, but on people with uteruses.
The Sept. 11 memorial on the BU Beach.The Boston University School of Public Health hosted a virtual conversation Friday titled “Twenty Years Later: Learning from 9/11” in reflection of the tragedy’s relationship to the field of public health. MEGHAN SCOTT/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

SPH, BU community reflect on 9/11, relates to public health

Paul Osheske September 13, 2021
Experts from New York discuss the World Trade Center Health Registry and general public health effects that came from 9/11.
In the third installment of the Boston Playwright Theater’s “BPT Talks” series, BPT playwright Cayenne Douglass took her audience behind the scenes of her thesis play “Beasts.” COURTESY OF BOSTON PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER

Student playwright captures complex familial bonds in thesis project

Molly Farrar November 12, 2020
BU's Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is hosting weekly “BPT Talks,” during which a third-year Master of Fine Arts playwright at BPT discusses their latest work.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The coronavirus pandemic afflicts workplace disparities

Editors October 8, 2020
While we are all struggling through the monotonous yet unpredictable lifestyle that comes with the pandemic, we must not forget that oppression still holds prominence in our society. And we would be foolish to believe that it has not gotten worse.
The Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program building on Bay State Road. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to constraints on research opportunities and hands-on learning for undergraduate students. CONNYR LU/ DFP FILE

How a pandemic transformed laboratory research at BU

Rachel Do September 9, 2020
It has now been months since BU and other universities first instituted remote learning and reduced capacity in classrooms, and research opportunities for undergraduates this semester have been no exception to such changes.
The research conducted by University of Guelph Professor Geoff Power found that the “secret” to strength in old age is a dedication to fitness earlier in life. PHOTO BY CARLY WILLING/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Expecting mothers’ exercise affects children’s physical activity, study finds

Morgan O’Hanlon April 4, 2016

Expecting mothers can promote future physical activity in their unborn children’s adult lives by exercising, according to a Baylor College of Medicine study published Thursday in the journal Federation...

A Boston University study released Thursday found that almost one-third of pregnant women have been told by their maternity care providers that their babies may be large, which sometimes leads to interventions in the pregnancy. PHOTO COURTESY PIXABAY

Pregnant women often misinformed about fetal size, BU study finds

Lauren Fogelstrom October 13, 2015

Three researchers at Boston University’s School of Public Health published a study Thursday that found that pregnant women’s perception of fetal size may erroneously influence how they choose to give...

EDITORIAL: Encouraging teenage pregnancy won't cure economic hardships

EDITORIAL: Encouraging teenage pregnancy won’t cure economic hardships

Editors April 10, 2015

As students, nearly all of us have been through the much-dreaded-but-entirely-necessary entity that is middle school Health and Sexual Education Class. We sat awkwardly in rows beside the classmates we...

EDIT: Sandberg says women should let employers know if pregnancy is on horizon

Daily Free Press Admin February 6, 2013

Last week, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg held that companies should be able to ask women about their plans for starting a family, according...

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