UCSD/Boston University find antidepressants may affect fetus
A University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine collaborative study with Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center found an increased risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) in newborns of mothers who used certain commonly prescribed antidepressants in late pregnancy. The results of the study will be published in the February 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medi...Boston University School of Medicine faculty member receives honorary degree from alma mater
... Wolf received his medical degree from the State University of New York College of Medicine at Syracuse in 1960 cum laude where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. He was an intern in medicine at the former Boston City Hospital, an assistant resident in medicine at the Pet...Children's Hospital Boston presents at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions
... (Embargoed until Monday, 3/26, 4 p.m. CT)... Treating congenital heart defects in babies still in the womb is a high-risk procedure, but one that can improve babies outcomes after birth. Researchers at Childrens Hospital Boston and Brigham and Womens Hospital reviewed the cases of 80 fetuses who had prenatal cardiac interventions during a six-year period (most often to avert hypoplastic left...Boston Celtics fund first teen vaccination delivery program in the country
... Highly safe and effective vaccines that can prevent Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and other sexually transmitted diseases are only beneficial if they are successfully dispersed to the critical age group of adolescents. Through a $25,000 grant from The Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundatio...Children's Hospital Boston neurosurgeons to perform brain tumor removal during live Web cast
... The Webcast will feature Children's intraoperative MRI system, known as the MR-OR, the first and only system of its kind at a pediat...Dr Elise Feng-I Morgan of Boston University receives 2005 IOF-Servier Young Investigator Award
Dr Elise Feng-i Morgan, of Boston University, today received the prestigious 2005 IOF-Servier Young Investigator Award, during the 2006 IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis (IOF WCO) in Toronto, Canada. Dr Morgan, who is Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, at Boston University, USA, won this award for her proposal to use three-dimensional visualization to understand how spi...Boston University and Boston Medical Center partner with CIMIT
Boston University (BU) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) today announced their joint membership in the Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT), the Cambridge, Mass.-based consortium that brings together clinicians, scientists and engineers to solve complex medical problems using novel technologies.... ...BU and BMC join founding members Massachusetts General Hospital, Bri...Children's Hospital Boston hosts live Webcast
On Thursday, June 30, 2005, at 3 p.m. (EST) Children's Hospital Boston will broadcast live from the operating room a robotic assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty to remove an obstruction from a kidney, and reconnect the kidney's drainage system. The Webcast is part of Children's ongoing effort to promote medical education, and allow consumers to see the latest and most innovative medical treatments...Boston University psychologists find neurological mechanism for subliminal learning
(Boston) -- Watch out -- you may learn something and not even know it, says Takeo Watanabe, an associate professor of psychology at Boston University's Center for Brain and Memory. Watanabe and his team recently pinpointed the mechanism that makes subliminal learning work. Watanabe will present the team's findings at the American Psychological Society meeting in Los Angeles, May 27 and 28. .......