UB Medicine News

UB Physician, UCLA Colleague Criticize TV Ad Campaign

2008-05-14T00:00:00-04:00

A "direct-to-consumer" advertising (DTCA) campaign shown on network television over the past six months touting the benefits of a specific stent device used to prop open clogged arteries should be viewed as "potentially deceptive," asserts a commentary co-authored by a University at Buffalo cardiologist in the current on-line issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Lyme Disease Expert to Lecture at UB's Health Sciences Library

2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00

John J. Halperin, M.D., world-renowned authority on Lyme disease, will deliver the 17th annual C.K. Huang Lecture, "Lyme Disease: Facts and Myths," at 7 p.m. May 16 in the Austin Flint Reading Room of the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library in Abbott Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus.

Best-Selling Author, Buffalo Native, Is Spring Clinical Day Speaker

2008-04-29T00:00:00-04:00

Buffalo native Michael F. Roizen, M.D., best-selling author, cohost of "Discovery Health," cofounder of RealAge, Inc., and chairman of its scientific advisory board, will be the featured speaker at the 2008 Spring Clinical Day sponsored by the University at Buffalo Medical Alumni Association on May 3.

4 Faculty Members Receive SUNY Research Awards

2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00

Four University at Buffalo faculty members -- Robert J. Genco, Andre Filiatrault, Gilberto Mosqueda and Doreen Wackeroth -- were honored for their research and scholarship at the SUNY Research Foundation's annual awards dinner held on Monday in Albany.

Advanced MRI Studies Provide New Insight on Early Parkinson's Disease

2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain affecting movement, speech, mood, behavior, thinking and sensation for which there is no known cause or cure. Two studies from the University at Buffalo being presented at the 2008 American Academy of Neurology meeting in Chicago shed new light on very early development of the disease.

Gender Associated with Tourette Syndrome Severity

2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00

Tourette syndrome(TS), which in childhood is more severe in boys than girls, appears in adulthood to be more severe in women than men, a study by a University at Buffalo neurologist has shown.

Pediatric MS Causes More Deficits than other Myelin Disorders

2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00

In the first comparison of children with MS with those diagnosed with conditions called monophasic demyelinating disorders, University at Buffalo researchers have shown that children with MS have greater social and cognitive deficits and that the specific cognitive areas affected are similar to those found in adult MS patients.

Three UB Faculty Members Named SUNY Distinguished Professors

2008-03-21T00:00:00-04:00

Three UB faculty members have been named SUNY Distinguished Professors for having achieved national or international prominence and an established reputation in their fields of expertise.

Obese ICU Patients Have Lower Mortality But Longer ICU Stays

2008-03-17T00:00:00-04:00

Obese intensive care patients do not have a higher ICU death rate than non-obese ICU patients, but they remain in the ICU significantly longer and are intubated significantly longer than non-obese patients, a new study has found.

Gift Will Endow UB Lectureship in Medical Education

2008-03-12T00:00:00-04:00

Oliver P. "O.P." Jones, M.D., the widely beloved professor who inspired awe and sometimes trepidation in generations of anatomy students at the University at Buffalo, will be remembered in a lectureship created in his honor through the generosity of a former student and his spouse.