Health and Medicine

A new laboratory with state-of-the-art graphics workstations at the University at Buffalo is providing a rare commodity: a way to bridge the gap between bench science and supercomputing through molecular modeling and bioinformatics tools. The Laboratory for Molecular Visualization and Analysis is one of a handful of such facilities in the nation, providing a critical service to researchers at UB and its affiliated research partners.

The UB School of Health Related Professions has formed a Department of Rehabilitation Sciences to provide a comprehensive and unified approach to the field of rehabilitation science.

Scientists from the University at Buffalo described their work with biological agents and their research in developing methods to counteract them at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) biodefense summit held today at NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Md., to assess the most promising bioterrorism research and set funding priorities.

The Milwaukee Institute of Design will be the first venue to host the traveling version of "Unlimited by Design," a multi-media, hands-on exhibition of well-designed, attractive products and residential interiors created according to the principles of universal design (U/D). The exhibit is a presentation of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Universal Design in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.

Members of the University at Buffalo community, at the request of a UB alumnus who was serving with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in Afghanistan, have joined the international effort to improve medical care in Kabul and the surrounding area by donating and shipping 40 boxes of medical textbooks to the war-torn region.

Taking steps to tailor medication regimens for patients being treated for the first time for HIV infection and to assure that they adhere to those regimens can pay off with improved virologic results nearly a year following initiation of treatment, according to a study by University at Buffalo researchers.

Fifty graduates of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences received awards at the school's recent commencement ceremony.

This fall, in addition to Biochemical Principles and Human Physiology, students studying to be pharmacists in the University at Buffalo's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will be taking a course in pharmacogenomics.

The prevalence of physical aggression among adults "eclipses rates based on police reports or victimization surveys by a factor of 10," according to a study by University at Buffalo researchers recently reported in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. They found that 1 in every 3 men between the ages of 18 and 30 and 1 in 5 women in that age category are the target of physically aggressive behavior on an annual basis.

Where a woman lives at birth and puberty may have an impact on her risk of developing breast cancer later, findings from a novel study conducted by geographers and epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo have shown.