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Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: U.S. healthcare system is sustaining the inequitable quality of care crisis

Bailey Salimes December 8, 2021
Millions of people in the United States are in medical debt crises, with many asking if they can afford to live.
A mug of tea and a tissue box. Mia chronicles her latest sick experience and shares some advice for when college students fall ill. COURTESY OF KELLY SIKKEMA VIA UNSPLASH

How to take care of yourself when sick in college

Mia Chai November 18, 2021
All we can do is try to take care of ourselves with healthy habits and lots of rest.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Minority Report: Get the Flu Shot

Lincoln Son Currie October 13, 2021
As Americans, we all have a responsibility to do better at getting our flu shots every year, and that includes me.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Let Your Hair Down: Lessons to carry with us from the pandemic as we return back to regular life

Hannah Bohn September 13, 2021
The events of the past year forced us not only to be accountable for our own health, but also for the safety of others.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Boston University’s new pandemic policies are not cutting it

Editors September 2, 2021
Boston University’s new pandemic measures place too much emphasis on student responsibility rather than institutional measures designed to keep students, faculty and service workers safe.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Moving Forward: The pandemic’s effect on our personalities

Divya Sood April 20, 2021
It is important we acknowledge our internal personality changes after a major life event.
boston university choral society at splash on nickerson field

BU Choral Society remains inclusive, dynamic in pandemic

Giulia Lallas April 7, 2021
BU Choral Society — an all-gender, non-audition choir — unites music lovers of all majors together.
Boston Children's Hospital, where one case of meningitis is currently being treated after two children were confirmed to have contracted it at a Boston daycare last week. PHOTO BY CAROLYN KOMATSOULIS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Two cases of meningococcal disease reported in Boston

Gabe Koiishe October 29, 2019
Two young children were infected by the life-threatening bacteria, and their cases were linked to the day cares in which they were enrolled.
A young patient prepares to receive a shot. The Boston Department of Public Health is encouraging people to get their vaccines amidst the onset of flu season. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF HEATHER HAZZAN VIA SELF

Flu season is here, professionals urge students to get vaccines

Mary Lulloff October 16, 2019
This comes as some medical researchers are expecting this year's flu season to be particularly severe. As of last week, Massachusetts has seen 82 cases of flu.

CHISTYAKOV: Grin and bear it

Daily Free Press Admin October 24, 2012

Coming from a Russian family, I have learned to always be a fighter. This value was especially stressed whenever I developed an illness. I was taught to fight it for as long as I could with only hot soup,...

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