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(Boston University) Hanover resident and Boston Medical Center nurse manager Colleen LaBelle, RN, ACRN, CARN, was one of two semi-finalists to receive the Best Abstract Award from the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse.

(Boston University) Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that in a given week, over 10 million Americans are taking opioids, and more than 4 million are taking them regularly (at least five days per week, for at least four weeks).

These findings appear in the Aug. 31 issue of the journal Pain.

(Boston University) In complex scenes such as noisy parties or crowded restaurants, it is more difficult to follow a conversation involving many people, than to focus on one talker at one location.

This auditory ability to switch attention and, in the next instant, reset focus to a new speaker, is something about which little is known -- until now.

Tom Perls, an aging expert at Boston University, explains why women live five to 10 years longer than men

(Boston University) Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that approximately one in ten US children uses one or more cough and cold medications during a given week.

These findings appear in the August issue of the journal Pediatrics.

(Boston University) Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that approximately one in ten US children uses one or more cough and cold medications during a given week.

These findings will be presented today at the 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies' & Asian Society for Pediatric Research Joint Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that the bacteria Oxalobacter formigenes (O. formigenes), a naturally occurring bacterium that has no known side effects, is associated with a 70 percent reduction in the risk of recurrent kidney stones.

These findings appear online in the March issue Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.