Health and Medicine

The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has implemented a new agreement that establishes a Clinical Pharmacology Unit jointly administered by UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Practitioners of applied mathematics use a lexicon of numerical equations, instead of letters and sentences, to illuminate the secrets of the physical world. Now UB mathematics professor Bruce Pitman is using this "foreign language," to help solve gritty, real-world problems by developing computational models of everything ranging from large industrial systems to tiny biological ones, including the primary functional unit in the kidneys -- the nephron, which measures a mere 20 microns across.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions have released results of a study showing that adolescents who use both alcohol and cigarettes are at increased risk of personal and social problems, poor grades in school, and delinquency, compared to adolescents who do not use both substances.

If you sleep more than eight hours a night, snore or regularly are drowsy during the day, you may be at an increased risk of stroke, UB researchers have found.

A collection of memorabilia and autographs commemorating African-American history is on display in the University at Buffalo's Lockwood Library in celebration of Black History Month.

The University at Buffalo and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Inc. (HWI) have agreed to establish a UB Department of Structural Biology at HWI, initiating a 10-year collaboration that positions Buffalo to play a lead role in this critical field.

Genomics and proteomics research in Western New York will play a significant role in the post-gene-mapping era. Here are some story lines and research initiatives that will be useful to you in your continuing coverage:

A University at Buffalo staff member has been honored by the Polish American Historical Association for her new book, which looks at how Polish Americans have creatively adapted the rural peasant folklore of the old country to become a thriving contemporary part of multicultural, urban America.

Minglu Gao is an artist, art historian, curator and author who was born and bred in the political and cultural tumult of late 20th-century China. Political circumstances sent him off to spend his teen-aged years herding cattle in Mongolia and later propelled him into the explosive Chinese art movement of the 1980s. Today he is a noted curator and assistant professor of art history at the University at Buffalo.

One quarter of non-fatal heart attacks among persons under the age of 45 in the United States can be attributed to regular cocaine use, scientists at the University at Buffalo's Toshiba Stroke Research Center have found. The study findings appear in the January issue of Circulation.