Health and Medicine

Entry-level salaries of $75,000 per year, hefty "signing bonuses," gifts of expensive foreign cars -- enticements like these may not be uncommon in the technology sector, but they now are being offered by your friendly neighborhood pharmacy, too.

Gifted venture strategist and scientist John N. Kapoor -- founder, chairman and CEO of E.J. Financial Enterprises, Inc. -- has given $5 million to the University at Buffalo, a gift that will help strengthen the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences' research core, provide resources to create a state-of-the-art instrumentation center and fortify the pharmaceutical-science faculty.

Differences in drinking styles between a husband and wife appear to predict husband-to-wife violence in the early years of marriage, according to a study by researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have found that the development of breast cancer appears to be related to how the body breaks down estrogen.

The question of whether too much iron increases the risk of dying from heart disease has received another "no" answer through the results of a population-based, long-term, follow-up study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo.

Children born extremely prematurely are 3 to 4 times more likely to be educational underachievers than children born at or near full term, a study by University at Buffalo researchers has shown.

The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, which began at the University at Buffalo Law School as a program in law and the social sciences, is celebrating its 25th anniversary as one of the top academic institutions internationally recognized for interdisciplinary study of law and legal institutions.

A study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine led by Lawrence Jacobs, Irvin and Rosemary Smith Professor of Neurology at the University at Buffalo, has shown that early treatment with one of the drugs used to control multiple sclerosis (MS) can significantly reduce the rate at which people at high risk develop full-blown symptoms of the disease.

Researchers can see the future in the blood vessels of children with a parent who has had a premature heart attack and the picture is not pretty. A study in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine -- on which Maurizio Trevisan, M.D., professor and chair in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University at Buffalo, is senior author -- reports that ultrasound images showed structural and functional abnormalities known to lead to atherosclerosis in children as young as 6 years.

The Early Childhood Research Center (ECRC) at the University at Buffalo has begun a project to explore the use of American Sign Language (ASL) as a common medium of communication among multilingual/multicultural preschool children whose socialization and English-language development often are impeded by the language barrier.