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While most people may think of toys only as recreational items for children, researchers in the Early Intervention Lab of the Center for Assistive Technology at the University at Buffalo see them, and other everyday items, as a means to help infants and toddlers with disabilities communicate, move and learn.

While nurse practitioners are considered part of the solution to physician shortages, many states still place restrictions on their practice, according to a study by researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing.

Residents of Buffalo's low-income, largely Hispanic Lower West Side are twice as sick as the U.S. population living in poverty, and face major barriers to receiving adequate health care, results of a comprehensive health survey conducted by the University at Buffalo Center for Urban Research in Primary Care has revealed.

James E. McConnell, Ph.D., professor of geography and director of the Canada-U.S. Trade Center at the University at Buffalo, has been named chair of the university's Department of Geography for a three-year term.

The differences in cancer rates among blacks and whites in the United States are related more to low socioeconomic status rather than to race, a study conducted by researchers from the University at Buffalo shows.

The University at Buffalo has launched an ambitious $18-million energy-conservation project that is believed to be the most comprehensive effort ever undertaken by an American university.

Alfredo Matilla, Puerto Rican scholar and professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University at Buffalo, predicts a marriage "in flesh and bone" of North America's Anglo and Hispanic cultures within 50 years. Hispanic groups from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to comprise 30 percent of the U.S. population by 2020, but Matilla says the merger of which he is speaking will produce more than numbers. He predicts the emergence of "new U.S. culture," one distinguished by new ways of using and understanding the English language and of experiencing the world itself.

Paul R. Knight, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been named to the Surgery, Anesthesiology and Trauma Study Section of the Division of Research Grants of the National Institutes of Health.

Highly trained runners hoping to improve their performance by slashing fat from their diets may be heading down the wrong nutritional path, a small pilot study by University at Buffalo researchers implies.

Results of two NASA Space Lab 2 research projects on cardiovascular functioning and deconditioning in microgravity, designed by scientists from the University at Buffalo, have confirmed that blood pressure in flight is regulated by a decrease in vascular resistance in response to an increase in cardiac output induced by microgravity.