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Why the Most Prescribed Chemotherapy Drug Can Cause Serious Heart Damage

There’s still much to learn about how doxorubicin, a 50-year-old chemotherapy drug, causes its most concerning side effects. While responsible for saving many lives, this treatment sometimes causes cardiac damage that stiffens the heart and puts a...
17-Jul-2024 2:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Center for Professional and Workforce Impact Launched

With advances in artificial intelligence, increasing automation, and the rise of hybrid and remote work, evolving needs in the workplace are increasing the demand for continuous learning and professional development. To do so, University College...
11-Jul-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Derby Entrepreneurship Center Receives $1 Million Grant from Cummings Foundation

The Cummings Foundation recently awarded the Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts a $1 million sustaining grant to boost entrepreneurial education programming.
11-Jul-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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SOS Signal for Canine Muscle Loss

Researchers at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine are now working with engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to determine whether a blood test, ultrasound, or a combination of both can be developed to detect cachexia...
26-Jun-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

The Trials and Tribulations of Teens on TV

Tasha Oren, director of the Film and Media Studies Program, says contemporary representations of teens on TV and film resonate because they feel reflective of teens’ actual experiences (if, at times, only emotionally or in over-dramatized form).
26-Jun-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Tufts Maternal Health Expert Appointed to Federal Advisory Committee

Tufts Maternal Health expert Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha will bring decades of research on maternal health inequities to the advisory committee that advises the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
26-Jun-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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American diets have a long way to go to achieve health equity

Poor diet continues to take a toll on American adults. In a study from the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers found...
12-Jun-2024 3:25 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Ingestible Microbiome Sampling Pill Technology Advances

Significant progress has been made in the development of a small device, about the size of a vitamin pill, that can be swallowed and passed through the gastrointestinal tract to sample and help identify the full inventory of microbiome bacteria in...
7-Jun-2024 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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Struggling with doing physical therapy exercises at home? Here’s how to stay on track

Physical therapy can be a life changer, helping people address chronic pain, recovery from surgery or injury, or getting back to a beloved sport. But that’s only if physical therapy is done — and done right. Faculty from the Tufts University...
11-Jul-2024 8:05 AM EDT

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Kevin Clark Named a Beckman Young Investigator

Kevin Clark, an assistant professor of chemistry at Tufts University, has been named a 2024 Beckman Young Investigator. The award, presented by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, offers $600,000 in funding over four years to promising early...
24-Jun-2024 2:05 PM EDT

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A Disturbing Trend in Colon and Rectal Cancers

Over the past three decades, rates of colon and rectal cancers—collectively known as colorectal cancer—have steadily risen among people under the age of 50. It’s particularly striking because rates have been declining among older people during...
11-Jun-2024 12:05 PM EDT

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A History of the First Asians in the Americas Became Personal

When most people in the U.S. think about Asian immigrants coming to the Americas, they often picture immigrants from China coming in the 1800s. The story, though, is much more complicated—and interesting. As Diego Javier Luis, assistant...
2-May-2024 8:30 AM EDT

On Teens, Nutrition, and Exercise: How to Encourage Healthy Habits

Experts across Tufts outline the challenges for today’s teens when it comes to healthy eating and physical activity, and how parents and caregivers can help
30-Apr-2024 12:05 PM EDT

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Are Probiotics All They’re Cracked Up to Be?

Probiotics have been touted as a treatment for everything from diarrhea to mental health disorders, with sales of probiotic supplements expected to exceed $65 billion globally in 2024.
30-Apr-2024 12:05 PM EDT

A Dentist’s Tool for Tackling the Unexpected

A Tufts University School of Dental Medicine faculty member was part of a team from the Anesthesia Research Foundation of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology that developed a free app called 10 Minutes Saves a Life for use by dentists and...
9-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT

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