Health and Medicine

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Survey ranks UB students No.1 in making healthy choices at mealtime
9/2/15
The results reflect increased awareness of eating healthier, staying fit.
With tobacco, what you don't know can kill you sooner
8/31/15
Public shows “considerable lack of knowledge” about the risk associated with different types of tobacco products, UB researchers say
Vitamin D may play key role in preventing macular degeneration
8/27/15
Women with two risk alleles and low vitamin D status are nearly seven times more likely to have the sight-damaging disease, UB researcher and her team find.
RIA Fall Seminar Series provides new insights into addiction
8/26/15
National experts on behavioral neuroscience, adolescent substance abuse and prescription drug addiction will visit the UB Research Institute on Addictions during its Fall Seminar Series beginning Sept. 9.
$2.5 million NIOSH grant to study impact of stress on police health
8/24/15
How do the rigors of police work — from traumatic sights and sounds, to long work shifts and high demand levels — affect officers? A UB study seeks to answer that very important question.
UB spinoff Cytocybernetics awarded $291,000 for technique that improves drug safety screening
8/19/15
The Star Trek-like technology could help bring drugs to market quicker, saving hundreds of millions of dollars.
NIH awards UB $15 million Clinical and Translational Science Award
8/13/15
UB has been awarded a prestigious, four-year, $15 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health to speed the delivery of new drugs, diagnostics and medical devices to patients.
African-Americans most likely to stop taking meds in Medicare Part D’s coverage gap
8/12/15
Medicare Part D provides help to beneficiaries struggling with the cost of prescriptions drugs, but the plan’s coverage gap hits some populations harder than others, particularly African-Americans age 65 and older.
News Conference: UB leaders, medical campus partners and Congressman Higgins to discuss importance of $15 million NIH grant
8/12/15
Leaders from the University at Buffalo, Kaleida Health and Roswell Park Cancer Institute will brief the media about the importance to the community of the $15 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) announced yesterday by the National Institutes of Health.
RIA Director Kenneth Leonard honored with national award
8/11/15
Kenneth Leonard, director of UB's Research Institute on Addictions, will be recognized for his outstanding scientific contributions with a national award from the American Psychological Association’s Society of Addiction Psychology.