Health and Medicine

News about UB’s health sciences programs and related community outreach. (see all topics)

Medical school milestone: UB holds beam-signing and topping out ceremony
3/22/16
Representatives including UB President Satish K. Tripathi and New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo gathered for the traditional topping out ceremony.
Media advisory: Beam-signing and topping out ceremony for new medical school building
3/21/16
UB will celebrate a major milestone in the construction of its downtown medical school on Tuesday, March 22.
CBLS to host event Thursday spotlighting core facilities
3/21/16
The facilities provide assistance to UB faculty and industries in need of services in genomics, proteomics and supercomputing.
This necklace 'hears' what you eat
3/16/16
The food-tracking wearable device may help fight diabetes, obesity and more.
What do concussions do to your body and brain? UB study to focus on teens
3/15/16
UB team will use NIH grant to look at how a concussion changes cerebral blood flow.
Robert J. Genco to receive 2016 Distinguished Scientist Award from AADR
3/14/16
Robert J. Genco, University at Buffalo world-renowned scientist, will receive the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association for Dental Research (AADR).
Patient care transitions expert Gerri Lamb to speak at sixth annual Nelson Lecture
3/14/16
Gerri Lamb, a renowned patient care coordination expert at Arizona State University, will explore how nurses can improve the transition of patients and information when she delivers the keynote speech for the UB School of Nursing’s sixth annual Margaret A. Nelson Lecture.
UB’s Prasad receives SPIE Gold Medal
3/14/16
The award is the highest honor bestowed by the international society for optics and photonics.
UB awarded $2.6 million from SUNY to recruit top faculty researchers for biomedical engineering and UB RENEW
3/11/16
The funds come from SUNY’s Empire Innovation Program, which helps campus efforts to recruit faculty with proven track records of externally-funded research.
Trouble sleeping? The size of your tongue and tonsils could be why
3/8/16
According to a new study led by UB orthodontic researcher Thikriat Al-Jewair, oversized tonsils and tongues place people at high risk for obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep due to blocked upper airways.

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