Health and Medicine

The breast cancer pretreatment period -- the time during which a woman is diagnosed, meets with physicians and awaits initial treatment -- can be extremely distressing, lonely and confusing. Research demonstrates that approximately one-third of women diagnosed with breast cancer will develop symptoms such as depression and post-traumatic stress at some point in the course of their illness. These symptoms may continue for up to 20 years after diagnosis.

In addition to the health problems children with multiple sclerosis face, a risk of obesity has entered the picture. A new study conducted by pediatric MS specialists at the University at Buffalo has found that children with multiple sclerosis and other pediatric demyelinating disorders are at increased risk of childhood obesity, compared to children without these disorders.

An addiction medicine fellowship developed by University at Buffalo's Department of Family Medicine is one of the nation's first 10 postgraduate addiction medicine residencies accredited by the American Board of Addiction Medicine Foundation.

The University at Buffalo announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Glenna Bett, PhD, assistant professor and vice chair for research in the UB Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project to develop a device to treat postpartum hemorrhage.

Pregnancy appears to have a positive effect on long-term disability in women with two types of multiple sclerosis, indicating that reproductive hormones may play a protective role in MS progression, neurology researchers at the University at Buffalo have found.

Students in schools and universities in the U.S. and around the world are using waterpipes to smoke tobacco at "alarmingly high" rates, according to a study published this month by University at Buffalo researchers.

A University at Buffalo School of Social Work professor is helping redefine the country's definition of being poor with research that shows the dramatic difference between achieving "basic economic security" and the federal government's "poverty line."

The iSciWNY workforce development program, created by the University at Buffalo's New York Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and Educational Opportunity Center (EOC), is collaborating with the West Seneca Central School District to create a first-of-its-kind academy that links high school students with potential employers in Western New York's growing life sciences industry.

Exposure to air pollution early in life and when a woman gives birth to her first child may alter her DNA and may be associated with premenopausal breast cancer later in life, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.

A just released study on the relationship between multiple sclerosis (MS) and chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), a narrowing of the extracranial veins that restricts the normal outflow of blood from the brain, found that CCSVI may be a result of MS, not a cause.