http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=d-medicine en-US Copyright 2009, University at Buffalo 2009-11-20T17:01:22-05:00 ub-news@buffalo.edu ub-news@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10652 Magnetic resonance images (MRI) of patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in childhood show that pediatric onset multiple sclerosis is more aggressive, and causes more brain lesions, than MS diagnosed in adulthood, researchers at the University at Buffalo have reported. 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 106520009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10647 Three University at Buffalo students were awarded Fulbright student scholarships for the 2009-10 academic year and are abroad studying and contributing to the health and education systems of other countries. 2009-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 106470009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10602 Gail Seigel, PhD, research assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Physiology and Biophysics, will be part of a group of researchers taking part in the new National Cancer Institute-funded Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, which will be headquartered at Cornell University. 2009-10-26T00:00:00-05:00 106020009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10563 Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D., Ph.D., senior associate dean for medical education and a clinical professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo, has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. IOM membership is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. 2009-10-14T00:00:00-05:00 105630009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10562 Neurologists at the University at Buffalo are beginning a research study that could overturn the prevailing wisdom on the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers will test the possibility that the symptoms of MS result from narrowing of the primary veins outside the skull, a condition called "chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency," or CCSVI. 2009-10-14T00:00:00-05:00 105620009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10544 Russell W. Bessette, MD, a former executive director of the New York State Agency for Science Technology & Academic Research (NYSTAR), has been named associate vice president for health sciences and director of health information technology at the University at Buffalo. 2009-10-09T00:00:00-05:00 105440009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10536 UBMD, the University at Buffalo's 450-member physician practice plan, has received a $7 million grant from the New York State Department of Health HEAL NY initiative to implement a novel electronic records system to track and manage treatment of chronic kidney disease in real time, with the goal of reducing the number of patients in Western New York who develop end stage kidney disease (ESRD). 2009-10-07T00:00:00-05:00 105360009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10521 Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo and The Children's Guild Foundation, along with the University at Buffalo, have announced the formation of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Center of Excellence, funded by a $585,000 grant from the foundation. 2009-10-02T00:00:00-05:00 105210009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10418 Dietrich Jehle, M.D., the University at Buffalo professor of emergency medicine, who helped save lives on the scene of the 6-car accident on the I-190 expressway on Thursday, coincidentally is particularly knowledgeable about the dangers of car crashes. 2009-09-04T00:00:00-05:00 104180009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10408 Some of the most influential new ideas -- and the scientists who developed them -- in the emerging field of chemical biology are coming to the Sept. 12 symposium on "Chemical Biology in the 21st Century" sponsored by the University at Buffalo and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. 2009-08-31T00:00:00-05:00 104080009