Health and Medicine

Niagara Hospice and the University at Buffalo's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have formed a partnership, believed to be only the second of its kind in the United States, that will place both institutions at the forefront of research and instruction in hospice and palliative care.

Computer scientists at the University at Buffalo have provided the first peer-reviewed scientific validation that each person's handwriting is individual, according to a paper that will be published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in July.

A study of data from more than 26,000 U.S. hospitals covering outcomes of 38 million patients has shown that people treated in private for-profit hospitals in the U.S. have a greater risk of dying than those cared for in private not-for-profit hospitals.

Seneca Nation historian and "bioneer" John Mohawk, co-director of the University at Buffalo Center for the Americas, is up to his knees in heirloom corn. He is a staunch advocate of the slow-food movement, a worldwide effort to safeguard and promote the use of traditional, unprocessed foods that digest very slowly, which means they are a lot better for you than the foods that populate the average American diet.

Drinking wine appears to be good for the lungs, a University at Buffalo study has shown, and in this case, the primary credit goes to white wine rather than red.

How alcohol intake affects women's responses to sexual aggression is the focus of a new study funded by a $350,000 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism being conducted at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Additions (RIA).

A geology professor at the University at Buffalo recently took graduate students enrolled in his advanced field methods class to western Mexico to study Colima -- the most active volcano in North America -- and its eruptive patterns, and to learn from residents what it's like to live beneath "el Volcan de Fuego," or "volcano of fire," as Colima is known.

There is hope for parents concerned about their children's health in the wake of a recent Center for Disease Control study showing a disturbing increase in childhood obesity and diseases associated with childhood obesity.

Using advanced MRI brain imaging methods and tapping into one of the most powerful supercomputing systems in the world, University at Buffalo researchers in the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC) are providing insights into multiple sclerosis that never before were possible.

Jeffrey Skolnick, Ph.D., a world-renowned scientist in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics, has been named director of the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.