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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

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COVID-19 exacerbates Massachusetts DOC health care shortcomings

Colbi Edmonds March 11, 2021
Michael Horrell, a staff attorney at Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts — an organization focused on protecting civil rights of people in prisons — said the pandemic has worsened the quality of health care in the state’s correctional facilities, which has “never been great.”
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BU Alzheimer’s researchers discuss disease advancements, current studies

Madeline Humphrey March 2, 2021
The Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center perseveres in research about the disease despite the pandemic.
“And The Neon Gods.” Boston University senior Jonas Hayes wrote the feature film after his freshman year and is now preparing to film. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

College students write original Western thriller

Ashley Soebroto February 5, 2021
Boston University students and their peers are currently preparing to shoot their own film, “And The Neon Gods," a Western thriller.
“The Princess Bride” film. In a Wednesday webinar hosted by Boston University’s Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy, venture capitalist Lisa Suennen used the film as an allegory to explain health care entrepreneurship. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU hosts health care entrepreneurship discussion, encourages students to be bold

Kyla Denisevich February 2, 2021
BU’s Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy held their first installment of IHSIP’s 2021 Nexus Series on Wednesday about healthcare entrepreneurship, with a creative twist.
Massachusetts can avoid another statewide lockdown if the Commonwealth uses information it knows about the coronavirus to respond to rising cases, according to state leadership and experts. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS FILE

Health experts weigh in on if lockdown is necessary

James Paleologopoulos October 29, 2020
State leadership and experts say Massachusetts can avoid another statewide lockdown if the Commonwealth acts on what it now knows about the virus as COVID-19 rates rise to spring levels.
Hospital employees looked out the window of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Longwood while fighter jets passed by in solidarity with health care workers on May 6. Brigham and Women’s Hospital identified a cluster of COVID-19 cases among both staff and patients last week. LAURYN ALLEN/ DFP FILE

COVID-19 cluster at Brigham and Women’s Hospital raises safety concerns

James Paleologopoulos October 1, 2020
Twelve patient and 33 employee cases have been linked to the cluster.
EDITORIAL: Baker’s mental illness announcement good first step, but obstacles ahead

EDITORIAL: Baker’s mental illness announcement good first step, but obstacles ahead

Editors September 13, 2016

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team struck gold once again this summer, breaking a three-part series that outlined the deep-rooted flaws in the Commonwealth’s mental health systems. The report found...

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