http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=ub2020-health en-US Copyright 2008, University at Buffalo 2008-05-12T16:38:14-04:00 apage@buffalo.edu apage@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9367 Gambling activity is widespread among U.S. adolescents and young adults ages 14 through 21, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA). 2008-05-06T00:00:00-04:00 93670009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9363 A food security expert at the University at Buffalo says the worldwide food crisis is a direct result of the choices made by policy makers and the lack of attention paid to the food system and its relationship to global warming and fossil fuels. 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 93630009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9341 Michael F. Buckley, a University at Buffalo computer science lecturer, is leading a national movement to change the way computer science is taught in college. His students learn about Buddhism. They read "The Tao of Pooh." They visit a center for children with disabilities and are asked to design technologies that can improve the way these children live and learn. 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 93410009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9313 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. 2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 93130009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9324 Plant sterols, known to help reduce high cholesterol, also may be effective in treating the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS), novel research by University at Buffalo investigators has shown. 2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 93240009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9325 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. 2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 93250009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9298 Local company Medcotek, Inc., has signed a licensing agreement with the University at Buffalo for use of a new technology that will advance the company's entry into the lucrative teleradiology market. 2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 92980009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9287 For a rich source of stem cells to be engineered into new blood vessels or skin tissue, clinicians may one day look no further than the hair on their patients' heads, according to new research published earlier this month by University at Buffalo engineers. 2008-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 92870009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9228 Stroke patients who use ibuprofen for arthritis pain or other conditions while taking aspirin to reduce the risk of a second stroke undermine aspirin's ability to act as an anti-platelet agent, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown. 2008-03-12T00:00:00-04:00 92280009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9178 Up to 20 percent of patients taking aspirin to lower the risk of suffering a second cerebrovascular event do not have an antiplatelet response from aspirin, the effect thought to produce the protective effect, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown. 2008-02-25T00:00:00-04:00 91780009