Health and Medicine

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

Antidepressants linked to tooth implant failure, new study finds
3/7/16
Antidepressants, commonly used to treat anxiety, pain and other disorders, quadruple the risk of dental implant failure, according to a new pilot study by University at Buffalo researchers.
UB Nursing awarded grant from Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare to fund doctoral students
3/7/16
The University at Buffalo School of Nursing will fund scholarships for three doctoral nursing students in 2016 with the help of a new grant from the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare.
Media Advisory: Grand opening of Blackstone LaunchPad for student entrepreneurs
3/4/16
The program and resource will serve UB’s approximate 30,000 students, regardless of major or experience.
UB researchers to study gun violence among youths
3/2/16
How and why children carry weapons is the subject of a $3.4 million interdisciplinary study led by two UB researchers looking to find ways high-risk children can escape a cycle of violence.
Opioid epidemic is topic of Mini Med School series
3/2/16
Series will feature experts in medicine and nursing as well as representatives from law enforcement
UB students travel to India to help town create sanitation plan
2/26/16
Thirteen graduate students in an interdisciplinary studio offered through the UB School of Architecture and Planning spent three weeks in India collaborating with partners there to help develop a much-needed public sanitation plan.
UB to host presentation on Flint water crisis
2/25/16
University of Flint-Michigan professor and UB alumna Michelle Sahli will discuss the Flint water crisis in a presentation Feb. 29 at UB.
UB nursing students first to gain hands-on experience in operating rooms, ICUs in Buffalo
2/15/16
Delivery rooms and intensive care units are now open to students seeking clinical experience within the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, the first program in Buffalo to offer the specialties to students.
Estrogen, antibiotics persisted in dairy farm waste after advanced treatment, research finds
2/10/16
The chemicals’ endurance may pose a threat to the environment and human health.
UB Libraries among handful of locations to premier national Native Voices exhibition
2/8/16
The culture and healing traditions of Native Americans are on display at the University at Buffalo in “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness,” a traveling national exhibition that includes UB as one of its first stops.

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