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Charles J. Kilo, MD, a former professor of clinical medicine at the School of Medicine, died of pneumonia March 15 in Naples, Fla. He was 94. Kilo and collaborators at the School of Medicine were among the first to demonstrate that diabetes complications are linked to the duration of the disease and the degree of blood sugar control. March 31, 2021

News, Opinion, Community New Wheelock Educational Policy Center Will Put Research in the Hands of Policymakers, Drive National Conversations Research at BU’s new Wheelock Education Policy Center will focus on improving policies that have contributed to persistent inequities within the education system for students of color, students with disabilities, and English learners. Photo by Cydney Scott Education Aim: improving educational outcomes for historically marginalized stud...

 E-Mail When we recall a memory, we retrieve specific details about it: where, when, with whom. But we often also experience a vivid feeling of remembering the event, sometimes almost reliving it. Memory researchers call these processes objective and subjective memory, respectively. A new study from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that objective and subjective memory can function independently, involve different parts of the brain, and that people ba...

Eight will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2021 The Board of Trustees is bestowing the Distinguished Alumni Award, the Universitys highest alumni honor, to eight individuals.Image: Patrick Mansell Eight will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2021 March 10, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Eight Penn State alumni selected by the Penn State Board of Trustees will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, which is the Universitys highest honor presented to its alumni. The following individ...

Credit: Svetlana Andrukh (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Scythian people of ancient Ukraine led more complex lives than commonly assumed, according to a study published March 10, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Alicia R. Ventresca Miller of the University of Michigan and colleagues. The Scythian people, who lived across the Pontic steppe around 700-200 BCE, are often portrayed as a culture of nomadic warriors. But this idea is challenged by archaeological ...

President Issoufou wins Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership By Kester Kenn Klomegah The 2020 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has been awarded to Mahamadou Issoufou, President of Niger, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation has announced following a meeting of its independent Prize Committee. President Mahamadou Issoufou served two five-year terms as President of Niger from 2011 to 2020. He is the sixth recipient of the Ibrahim Prize, which recognizes and celebrates excellence in Africa...

Share this article Share this article PASADENA, Calif., March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A Kaiser Permanente study showed that one type of pneumonia vaccine, the PCV13 vaccine, may affect the course of COVID-19 for some older adult patients. The study was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. "Kaiser Permanente members who received the PCV13 vaccine appeared to be diagnosed with COVID-19 less often, and when they were, they seemed to have less severe outcomes, overall," said the seni...

March 8, 2021 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- If it becomes law, the American Rescue Plan Act would pit the great need Americans have for economic relief in this pandemic against those who insist the bill must include abortion funding, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairmen of seven USCCB committees. "Our nation needs to heal, come together and help one another. The is an important step in the right direction," the prelates said March 5 in a join...

Women in Fisheries Proud to Join IWD Celebrations “We are proud to contribute as women in the fisheries sector which is an important source of income and food security for many women in the country,” Masu said. Source: Supplied Tuesday, 09 March 2021 10:56 AM Female staff of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources have joined women from other organisations to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) in Honiara yesterday. The Ministry’s Deputy Secretary Technical (DST) an...

Supplement presents latest evidence on quitlines effectiveness for smoking termination While cigarette smoking continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the U.S., the evidence base for cessation support has revealed that telephone call centers, or "quitlines," have been a particularly successful intervention, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which recently published a compilation of scientific research in the American Jo...