http://www.buffalo.edu/news/list-page.html?key=ub2020-health en-US Copyright 2009, University at Buffalo 2009-11-06T16:27:02-05:00 ub-news@buffalo.edu ub-news@buffalo.edu http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10601 For women just diagnosed with breast cancer, one of the important decisions confronting them is whether to have a lumpectomy or mastectomy. Most studies investigating how women make this choice have surveyed women months and sometimes even years after their decision was made. Recently, however, the publication of a new University at Buffalo study, one of the few to focus on the time period between women's breast cancer diagnosis and surgery, provides insight into what women are thinking when faced with this decision. 2009-10-26T00:00:00-05:00 106010009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10596 Richard E. Besser, MD, senior health and medical editor for ABC News, will present the 21st annual J. Warren Perry Lecture on Nov. 13 at 1:30 p.m. in 105 Harriman Hall on the University at Buffalo's South Campus. 2009-10-23T00:00:00-05:00 105960009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10588 Scenario: A group of friends are drinking at the local pub, when one gets a cell phone call. He takes it in a quiet corner; nothing unusual. But this isn't a "What's Up" call from a friend: It's a "What-are-you-doing-right-now?" call from an automated voice system programmed to collect data in real time, via cell phone, from participants enrolled in research studies on alcohol, marijuana and the situational factors that surround their use. 2009-10-21T00:00:00-05:00 105880009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10574 New funding for an innovative University at Buffalo program that trains Zimbabwe's clinician scientists and translational pharmacologists will bring additional health care professionals and researchers to Buffalo to be trained to fight the war on AIDS in Zimbabwe. 2009-10-20T00:00:00-05:00 105740009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10565 A study about why African American seniors do or do not get influenza vaccinations finds that many of them do not have accurate and complete information about the flu itself, the safety and efficacy of the inoculations, and the ease and necessity of getting the shots. 2009-10-15T00:00:00-05:00 105650009 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/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/10500 A nation-wide cancer information program targeting African-Americans, called the Witness Project, is partnering with a University at Buffalo genetic epidemiologist to conduct the first national study of genes that increase breast cancer susceptibility in African-American families. 2009-09-29T00:00:00-05:00 105000009 http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10476 President Barack Obama announced yesterday that Esther S. Takeuchi, Ph.D., Greatbatch Professor in Power Sources Research in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor awarded in the U.S. for technological achievement. 2009-09-18T00:00:00-05:00 104760009