BU Professor on new book about U.S. healthcare reform: ‘I hope it helps to inspire a new way of thinking about healthcare’
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Dr. Alan Sager, professor of health law, policy & management at Boston University School of Public Health, discusses his new book The Easiest, which presents a guide to thorough healthcare reform in the US. By strategically redirecting trillions of dollars in wasteful spending, the US can achieve affordable and high-quality care for all.
In amateur soccer players, more frequent heading, or using the head to control or pass the ball, is linked to alterations within the folds of the brain, according to a study published on September 17, 2025, in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study does not prove that soccer heading causes brain changes, it only shows an association.
It’s time to develop more effective ways to control and prevent sexually transmitted gut infections, urge the authors of an article appearing today in Clinical Microbiology Reviews, a journal of the American Society of Microbiology. Global emergence of several multidrug-resistant gut pathogens and the potential for crossover transmissions among different at-risk populations underscores the importance of prompt diagnosis, appropriate treatment, and the need to consider community-level education and testing.