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POV: Here’s What’s Wrong with How People Are Using New Anti-Obesity Drugs

1 week ago | bu.edu | Joan Blake

Too often, patients aren’t being provided the necessary nutritional and lifestyle counseling when they’re put on these medications Voices & Opinion Too often, patients aren’t being provided the necessary nutritional and lifestyle counseling when they’re put on these medications Twitter Facebook Over 40 percent of adults living in the United States are categorized as having obesity, which is considered a disease by the American Medical Association (AMA). Obesity, with excessive body fat...
Sargent College’s OT Program Is Top in U.S. News Rankings for Fourth Consecutive Year

2 weeks ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

University News School of Public Health ranked 7th in the nation Twitter Facebook For the fourth straight year, Boston University’s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences retained its best-in-the-nation spot among occupational therapy (OT) programs in U.S. News & World Report’slatest rankings of best graduate schools, released this week. The 2025 U.S. News rankings also named Sargent’s speech-language pathology program 5th in the nation for the second year in a row. “These...
Alum, a Former Peace Corps Leader, Fetes BU Pardee at 10th Anniversary Celebration

2 weeks ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS’79, Hon.’16) says global turmoil offers a chance to do foreign assistance better University News Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS’79, Hon.’16) says global turmoil offers a chance to do foreign assistance better Twitter Facebook The ongoing shutdown of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) continues to upend American efforts against global poverty, yet it offers an opportunity to do development aid better. That was former Peace Corps director Carrie...
BU Graduate Schools Rise in 2025 U.S. News Rankings

2 weeks ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

Business, education, engineering, and law and medicine’s Physician Assistant program all up in latest list University News Business, education, engineering, and law and medicine’s Physician Assistant program all up in latest list Twitter Facebook Four Boston University schools rose in the latest set of graduate school rankings from U.S. News & World Report, among them the School of Law, which rose 2 places to a tie for 22th overall among law schools. “BU Law has long been home to exceptional...
Might Clinically Obese Patients Have Treatment Denied Under Proposed Diagnosis Changes?

3 weeks ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

BU emerita professor who served on international commission suggests doctors look beyond BMI to diagnose obesity Health & Medicine BU emerita professor who served on international commission suggests doctors look beyond BMI to diagnose obesity Twitter Facebook Body mass index (BMI), doctors’ go-to metric for adjudicating a person’s healthy weight for decades, has had long-recognized limitations. Determined by dividing people’s weight by their height, BMI was the subject of a recent report by...
“I Felt Very Alone”: Living with an Eating Disorder at BU

3 weeks ago | bu.edu | Alene Bouranova |Jackie Ricciardi

A Sargent student shares her journey, her struggles, and how she helped create a support group on campus.
SCOTUS Upholds Biden-era Ghost Gun Regulations in a “Qualified” Decision

4 weeks ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

Jacobs: Yes. For one, we should always be surprised when this very conservative court upholds any gun control law or regulation, whether we are dealing with a Second Amendment issue or not. The six Republican justices are often quite results-oriented, and you’d generally rather be on the pro-gun side in front of the court. That said, I found the outcome in this case particularly surprising because the court seemed quite skeptical of the rule at oral argument.
BU’s Cinema & Media Studies Program Celebrates 10 Years

4 weeks ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown |Cydney Scott

Film & TV CAS classes take a deep dive into the theory and aesthetics of filmmaking Twitter Facebook Filmmaker Dillon Bentlage says, with a smile, that he might not have been paying enough attention when he decided to major in Cinema & Media Studies at BU a decade ago. “Halfway through my major, I realized I wasn’t taking any classes about screenwriting, directing, or cinematography, and I was eager to start,” Bentlage (CAS’18) said during a small gala to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the...
US Defense Secretary Called Europe "Pathetic." Two BU Experts on Whether the Alliance Is Damaged.

4 weeks ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

Former ambassadors, both European, assess the deteriorating friendship between the longtime allies Politics Former ambassadors, both European, assess the deteriorating friendship between the longtime allies Twitter Facebook The antagonism toward traditional U.S. allies Europe that some Trump administration officials have expressed publicly in the past emerged again, inadvertently, from the now highly publicized March 23 app group chat about ongoing US attacks on Houthi militia in Yemen. “I...
2024’s Go-to State for Retirement? Massachusetts (That’s Not a Typo)

1 month ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

BU expert on aging Deborah Carr says climate change, amenities, and politics could account for Bay State’s popularity Voices & Opinion BU expert on aging Deborah Carr says climate change, amenities, and politics could account for Bay State’s popularity Twitter Facebook Well, we didn’t see this coming. Massachusetts—commonwealth of uncommonly high living costs and winters that can drag on for months—was retirement central last year. The state claimed a larger percentage of migrating retirees...