Health and Medicine

A University at Buffalo professor's research has led him to develop and teach the world's first academic course in a new technique called combinatorial chemistry that has taken the pharmaceutical industry by storm.

A cellular signaling system that responds to THC, the active substance in marijuana, as well as to anandamide, a cannabinoid-like molecule normally produced in the body, may regulate sperm functions required for fertilization in humans, a study headed by scientists from the University at Buffalo has found.

University of Buffalo researchers have confirmed a significant link between breast-cancer risk and physical characteristics of insulin resistance and higher-than-normal male and female sex hormones in a woman's bloodstream.

It's "do or die" time for many e-retailers this holiday season, say industry analysts. But amid speculation about the the ability of e-retailers to deliver orders in time for Christmas, one prominent toy manufacturer quietly has staked a claim on the Internet, arousing the suspicion of the big bricks-and-mortar retailers, says a professor of marketing at the University at Buffalo.

The University at Buffalo in 2001 will join an elite group of universities in the United States that offer a doctorate in physical therapy (DPT). The UB doctoral program will be the first within the State University of New York system.

The Buffalo-Niagara region has experienced definite, if incremental, progress over the last year, according to an analysis by the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth.

Senior citizens might be a lot happier -- not to say healthier and maybe even a little wealthier -- if health-care providers and insurers stopped focusing exclusively on costs of prescriptions and instead looked closely at why patients take so many medications in the first place, according to a UB pharmacist.

The prestigious Kresge Foundation has approved a $500,000 Science Initiative grant -- a first for the University at Buffalo -- for UB's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

For more than a century, New York's Lower East Side has been home to hundreds of thousands of working-class and poor immigrants from across the globe. In his new book, a University at Buffalo sociologist examines the peculiar phenomenon in which real-estate developers and city officials exploit images of social difference as a means to lure middle-class renters to the historic district.

The same principles that ensure user-friendly designs in products ranging from refrigerators to computers to dashboards on automobiles should be applied to the design of both paper and machine election ballots, according to a UB professor of industrial engineering.