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  • UB School of Public Health and Health Professions Honors Graduates
    6/29/04
    Twenty-three new graduates of the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo were honored with scholarships and awards during the school's recent commencement ceremony.
  • Large Abdomen Can Reduce Men's Lung Function By 15 Percent
    6/28/04
    Accumulating fat around one's middle can significantly impair lung function, new findings from the University at Buffalo show, in addition to increasing the risk of heart disease.
  • Research on Mysterious Inner Hair Cells, New Hearing Drug Funded by NIH Grants to UB Center for Hearing and Deafness
    6/28/04
    Diagnosing damage to a special group of sensory cells in the ear that affects hearing and determining whether a new pharmaceutical compound can protect the inner ear against hearing loss will be the focus of two grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health to the Center for Hearing and Deafness at the University at Buffalo.
  • First Biography of Searing, Visionary Writer Audre Lorde Considers Her Life as a "Warrior Poet"
    6/25/04
    Audre Lorde -- an American original who became a major figure in women's, African-American and lesbian literature -- is the focus of the biography "Warrior Poet" (Norton, 2004), written by Masani Alexis DeVeaux, professor and chair of the Department of Women's Studies at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Professor Studies Ways to "Package" Proteins, Making them More Stable for Shipping as Drug Products
    6/25/04
    A University at Buffalo assistant professor is exploring ways to preserve proteins and other biomaterials so that they can be more widely used, primarily in pharmaceutical products, thanks to a $200,000 James D. Watson Investigator grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR).
  • Study to Consider College Sports, Gender and Substance Use
    6/22/04
    The relationships between participation in high school and college athletics, gender, substance use, and other health-risk behaviors in college-age young adults will be the focus of a study conducted under a $471,000 grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.
  • Pattern of Alcohol Consumption as Important as Quantity Consumed in Development of Liver Disease, UB Study Finds
    6/15/04
    Women who habitually consume alcohol without food, and men who drink daily rather than less frequently, are at increased risk of liver damage even after adjusting for amount of alcohol consumed, the first study of the effects of drinking patterns on biochemical indicators of alcohol-related liver damage has shown.
  • Factors Predicting Successful Vaginal Delivery After Cesarean in Low-Risk Women Identified in UB Study
    6/15/04
    Physicians dispensed with the "Once a cesarean, always a cesarean" approach to childbirth in low-risk women more than 20 years ago, in an effort to curb the rising cesarean rate. However, rates of vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) began to decline in the mid 1990s. To shed light on this development, epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo assessed specific characteristics that were associated with both attempt and success of VBAC in women who were low-risk candidates for this type of delivery.
  • Association Between Gum Disease, Heart Attack Strong in Those Under 55, Regardless of Smoking Status, UB Study Finds
    6/15/04
    Smoking is known to increase the risk and severity of gum disease and gum disease appears to increase the risk of heart attack, so being a non-smoker would seem to lower the heart-attack risk in those with gum disease. Not so, researchers at the University at Buffalo have found. A study reported at the Society for Epidemiological Research showed that in those younger than 55, the association between gum disease and heart-attack risk was strong in both smokers and non-smokers.
  • Women Who Gain Significant Weight in Adulthood Increase Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer, UB Study Finds
    6/15/04
    If new mothers need a reason to shed pounds gained during pregnancy other than to fit into their pre-pregnancy clothes, a new study from the University at Buffalo provides it. UB epidemiologists have found a strong association between weight gain and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer for women who put on the most pounds between their first pregnancy and menopause, compared to those who gained the least.