Health and Medicine

A behavioral neuroscientist at the University at Buffalo holds that the ingestion of afterbirth by a mother, a feature of pregnancy in nearly all non-human mammals, not only relieves postpartum pain, but optimizes the onset of maternal behavior by mediating the activity of specific opioid activity circuits in the brain.

An efficient new strategy for synthesizing a natural marine product, which shows promising anti-tuberculosis activity but cannot be efficiently synthesized using conventional chemistry, is being reported by University at Buffalo organic chemists online in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

A novel technology that can test cells in minutes for responses to any stimulus, including antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, radiation or chemotherapy, has been developed by scientists at the University at Buffalo.

Companies interested in receiving matching grants from the $1 million Western New York Wellness Works Initiative should watch their mailboxes this week. The University at Buffalo's School of Public Health and Health Professions is calling for proposals from any company or business interested in developing a new wellness program for employees.

Surgeons at the University at Buffalo have carried out the first minimally invasive spinal surgery in the U.S., using a new technique to stabilize the lumbar spine called axial lumbar interbody fusion, or AxiaLIF.

Undergraduates from Western New York will have an opportunity this summer to participate in the inaugural session of a new biomedical-research training program at the University at Buffalo funded by a $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A novel non-estrogen-based therapy for hot flashes will be tested for effectiveness in a clinical trial conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo that is set to begin in February.

A device that saves lives of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms and its University at Buffalo inventor will be the stars of The International Symposium of Endovascular Treatment of Aortic Diseases being held in Brazil Feb. 1-2.

Results of a University at Buffalo study published in the January issue of the Journal of Trauma show that police officers who do not wear a seat belt are 2.6 times more likely to die if their patrol car crashes than officers who use a seat belt.

Two University at Buffalo faculty members who have spent years researching a concept called contextual vocabulary acquisition, in which readers use clues to figure out meanings of unfamiliar words, plan to turn their findings into a curriculum designed to improve reading skills for students nationwide.