Health and Medicine

University at Buffalo research showing that a new drug that eliminated tinnitus with a single dose in animal models is among the advances that will be presented at the Fifth Tinnitus Research Initiative Conference, "The Neuroscience of Tinnitus," sponsored by UB's Center for Hearing and Deafness Aug. 19-21 in Grand Island, N.Y.

A study by University at Buffalo sociologists has found that the portrayal of women in the popular media over the last several decades has become increasingly sexualized, even "pornified." The same is not true of the portrayal of men.

In light of the recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey due to reports of salmonella poisoning in 26 states including New York, a University at Buffalo infectious disease expert offers some useful advice, including tips for those contemplating an outdoor barbecue this weekend.

As the 66th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings approach on August 6 and 9, a University at Buffalo biostatistics and public-health expert says that studies of health effects from those events provide some clues to the potential, long-term health impacts of this year's Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

A University at Buffalo faculty member played an important role in the World Health Organization's first-ever public health guidelines aimed at curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people.

University at Buffalo School of Social Work Professor Deborah P. Waldrop has seen people die. Too often, their lives have ended in pain and despair, spending their final days in an alienating institutional environment, just another patient in an impersonal progression that leads to what she calls "reciprocal suffering" for families who also watch their loved ones die.

A University at Buffalo psychiatrist is attempting to help patients suffering from chronic pain and their doctors by drawing on ontology, the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of being or existence. The goals of his work are described in a video interview. He will present a tutorial on his research at the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, sponsored by UB, July 26-30 in Buffalo.

Mark Frank has spent two decades studying the faces of people lying when in high-stakes situations and has good news for security experts. "Executing Facial Control During Deception Situations," a new study he co-authored with former graduate student Carolyn M. Hurley, PhD, reports that although liars can reduce facial actions when under scrutiny, they can't suppress them all.

When Eman Abu Sabbah, a first-year PhD candidate in nursing at the University at Buffalo, discusses domestic violence against women in Jordan her body is still and her voice is steady, but her eyes shine with a laser-like intensity. A 2011 recipient of a prestigious Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF) grant, Sabbah has been working to help women in her home country for years.

In the first study of its kind in an animal species that has not passed a critical test of self-recognition, cognitive psychologist Justin J. Couchman of the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that rhesus monkeys have a sense of self-agency -- the ability to understand that they are the cause of certain actions -- and possess a form of self awareness previously not attributed to them.