Health and Medicine

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  • If You’re a College Student Abusing Prescription Drugs, Read This
    12/13/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. – In its ongoing mission to raise community awareness of the latest trends in substance use and abuse, the University at Buffalo’s Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) announced receipt of a new grant and release of an expert summary on the subject of prescription drug abuse.
  • Sjogren's Syndrome: New Discovery by UB and Immco Makes Early Diagnosis A Reality for the First Time
    12/12/12
    Patients suffering from the painful autoimmune disease, Sjogren's Syndrome, will soon be able to be properly diagnosed much earlier, thanks to the discovery of novel antibodies by researchers at the University at Buffalo and Immco Diagnostics, Inc.
  • Needs of Frail People and Vulnerable Elders to be Focus of New UB Institute
    12/12/12
    The University at Buffalo has announced the launch of a new international institute designed to meet the unique needs of one of the most vulnerable populations: persons with chronic illness, frailty and physical or cognitive impairments.
  • UB Law Professor Project Aims to Improve Seniors' Access to Services
    12/7/12
    To keep Buffalo's senior citizens healthy and active in the community, they must be able to live comfortably in their own homes.
  • Severe Morning Sickness Patients Get Relief from Anti-Seizure Drug, UB Professor Has Found
    12/7/12
    Good news may be on the horizon for Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, and other women stricken with severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, thanks to the work of a University at Buffalo professor who is conducting research on a drug that is showing success treating pregnant women with this condition.
  • UB Professor is Named President of the Association of Professors of Cardiology
    11/28/12
    John M. Canty Jr., MD, the Albert and Elizabeth Rekate Professor of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and UB's chief of cardiovascular medicine, has been named president of the Association of Professors of Cardiology (APC) for 2012 - 13.
  • How does Antibiotic Resistance Spread? UB Scientists Find Answers In the Nose
    11/19/12
    University at Buffalo microbiologists studying bacterial colonization in mice have discovered how the very rapid and efficient spread of antibiotic resistance works in the respiratory pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae (also known as the pneumococcus). The UB team found that resistance stems from the transfer of DNA between bacterial strains in biofilms in the nasopharynx, the area just behind the nose.
  • Media Advisory: U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health to Discuss the Affordable Care Act
    11/15/12
    The Affordable Care Act will be the subject of the J. Warren Perry Lecture that will be presented at the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions on Nov. 16 from 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. by Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • UB Takes Historic First Step to Acquire Downtown Buffalo Properties on which New Medical School will be Built
    11/15/12
    The University at Buffalo today announced the purchase of land at 960 Washington St., the first of several parcels it is assembling to make way for construction of the new $375 million University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB to Unveil New Mobile Dental Van, 'S-miles To Go,' in Chautauqua County
    11/14/12
    The University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine will celebrate the unveiling of its new, state-of-the-art mobile dental van "S-miles To Go" on Thursday, Nov. 15, from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Milton J. Fletcher Elementary School, 301 Cole Ave., Jamestown, N.Y.