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  • Shortening In-Hospital Rehabilitation Doesn't Diminish Treatment Effectiveness, But Patients Die Sooner, Study Finds
    10/12/04
    A reduction by health insurance carriers in the number of treatment days covered in medical rehabilitation hospitals by nearly 40 percent during the past decade didn't diminish treatment effectiveness, a new study has found. However, the analysis revealed a disturbing trend: Patients were not living as long after discharge from the hospitals.
  • Higher Death Rate from Liver Disease in African Americans May Be Due To Genetic Vulnerability
    10/8/04
    African Americans appear to be genetically more susceptible to the toxic effects of alcohol on the liver than whites, a finding that may help explain their higher rates of death from cirrhosis of the liver despite similar levels of alcohol consumption, research shows.
  • Residents Living Near Most-Heavily Traveled Border Crossing Four Times More Likely to Suffer from Asthma
    10/4/04
    Increased truck traffic at the busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing in the Eastern U.S. is contributing to a clustering of asthma cases among residents who live nearby, according to University at Buffalo researchers.
  • Are the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox Cursed?
    9/30/04
    Technically speaking, the Chicago Cubs are "cursed," and the Boston Red Sox are "jinxed," according to a renowned anthropologist at the University at Buffalo who studies the origins of cults, superstitions and cultural identities.
  • Carotid Artery Thickening, Stiffness Found in Obese Children as Young as 7
    9/24/04
    Obese children as young as 7 show signs of thickening and stiffness of the carotid arteries, a signal that they are headed for premature heart disease, a study conducted in Southern Italy has shown.
  • Monkeys and Humans Form Categories in Strikingly Different Ways, New Research Shows
    9/21/04
    The ability to form categories is a crucial cognitive ability shared by humans and animals. It plays an important role in the way in which humans and animals behave toward objects in their worlds.
  • Circulating Mononuclear Cells in the Obese Found to be in Proinflammatory State, Contributing to Diabetes and Heart Disease
    9/20/04
    Endocrinologists from the University at Buffalo are providing one more link in the growing chain of evidence pointing to chronic cellular inflammation as the precursor of heart disease and diabetes.
  • Search for New Markers for Sudden Cardiac Death to Focus on Patients at Risk for Catastrophic Disruption in Heart Rhythm
    9/16/04
    Sudden cardiac death each year claims the lives of more than 350,000 seemingly healthy men and women in the U.S., yet physicians continue to be perplexed about its underlying causes. A new study by investigators in the University at Buffalo Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine, one of the largest undertaken on sudden cardiac death (SCD), may help provide some answers.
  • Researcher Says Americans Are "Deluded" Regarding What They Know About the Rest of the World
    9/14/04
    Whether uninterested, uninformed or simply ignorant, many millions of Americans cannot answer even basic questions about American politics, much less world affairs, and it has cost the United States dearly, says a communications researcher and professor in the School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB's "Gender Matters 3" to Help Students, University Community and Public to Examine the World Through a "Gender Lens"
    9/10/04
    More than 25 programs and events highlighting issues involving women and gender will be on tap during "Gender Matters 3," the third annual Gender Week to be held Sept. 17-24 at the University at Buffalo.