Health and Medicine

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

Nursing students training for future of virtual health care
12/14/15
To prepare the next generation of nurses for virtual health care, the UB School of Nursing recently received a one-year SUNY High Needs grant to train nursing students in telehealth, which allows patients to use live video and self-diagnostic devices to receive distant care.
Fulbright assignment has special meaning for UB professor
12/14/15
Biostatistics professor emeritus Randy Carter and his wife will spend six months in India, a place that made a profound impact on their late son.
UB researcher tapped for cellphone-based health survey project
12/9/15
Gary Giovino, PhD, is facilitating the development of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health non-communicable disease risk factor mobile phone survey.
New concussion treatment could change how head injuries are treated
12/9/15
Within days of a suspected concussion, adolescents will be examined by UB physicians conducting clinical trial.
Fighting prescription painkiller abuse among baby boomers
12/7/15
Prescription opioid abuse has reached epidemic proportions, but new research led by UB psychiatric nursing researcher Yu-Ping Chang found motivational interviewing, a form of behavioral counseling, is an effective tool at curbing misuse.
Discovery puts designer dopamine neurons within reach
12/7/15
Parkinson’s disease researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo have developed a way to ramp up the conversion of skin cells into dopamine neurons.
Mother Nature may have solution for lowering cholesterol in pregnant women
11/25/15
UB researchers are studying whether plant sterols can be used as a natural alternative to drug therapy in expectant mothers who have high cholesterol.
What does stress do to the brain? UB researcher receives $2 million grant to find out
11/23/15
NIH grant will be used to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying the physiology of stress as well as therapeutic strategies.
Wactawski-Wende joins SUNY Distinguished Professor ranks
11/17/15
Jean Wactawski-Wende, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions, is the 88th UB faculty member to earn the rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor.
Medical marijuana should be held to same standard as other drugs, UB pharmacist says
11/10/15
People are advocating for medical marijuana for less than pure reasons, says UB's Edward Bednarczyk. It needs to be studied.

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