As the end of the year and final exams approach, some students get less productive and find ways to put off work. Reporter Ben Levine ruminates on the art of procrastination.
Amid a deep recession and a slow economic recovery, the fertility rate is below the replacement level of two-point-one percent. Withe the baby boomers reaching retirement, the aging of America will have consequences. BUTV’s Sandeep Chandrasekhar investigates in Boston.
Most Americans are familiar with the concept of poverty threshold; more than 46 million of them wish they weren’t so intimately familiar. This threshold is used as …
by Cole Chapman BOSTON —Although Massachusetts is not known for petroleum exploration, two bills have been filed in the Legislature to pre-emptively ban hydraulic fracturing – a natural gas extraction process better known as “fracking.” Rep. Denise Provost, D-Somerville, and Rep. Peter V. Kocot, D-Northampton, have co-sponsored one bill that
BOSTON — A few parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children, despite those kids attending school Boston University student Deedee Sun reports at the controversy about whether vaccines hurt or harm kids …
BOSTON – A disturbing increase in cancer rates among young women is linked to tanning beds. Casey Grenet reports on the latest medical study and introduces us to a patient with regrets.
BOSTON – The mayor of Boston has been alerted of a possible disease outbreak. The threat is grave. He assigns a team of epidemiologists to comb through medical records …
BOSTON – “Put him in a body bag!” chanted the boisterous, banner-wielding bunch of teenagers, bleeding red, white and black, at a Scarborough High School ice hockey game. “It’s all in good fun,” Andrew Reichl, a former student at the southern …
BOSTON – State health officials and legislators are taking steps and considering other changes to prevent a repeat of a national meningitis outbreak linked to a Framingham-based compounding pharmacy. A first step came Wednesday when …
BOSTON — When you throw together a group of academics, clinical researchers, social workers, and industry scientists, you get more than just a room full of conflicting opinions – you get a room full of fresh ideas. One such group of Alzheimer’s disease experts was organized by the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) to critically evaluate differences in Alzheimer’s disease between men and women. This panel provided a set of recommendations for future Alzheimer’s research.