Health and Medicine

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  • UB Names Executive Director of Institute for Healthcare Informatics
    10/2/12
    Peter Winkelstein, MD, professor of pediatrics at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, chief medical informatics officer for UB/MD and former chief of the division of general pediatrics, has been appointed executive director of the UB medical school's Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
  • Professor to Launch Dental Clinic in Turkey to Treat Syrian Refugees
    10/2/12
    "We have friends in Syria who were visited by police because their son had attended a rally. When they told the police that their son wasn't home, the police proceeded to shoot the three children who were there, in front of their mother, as a warning. One of those children was three years old." This is just one of the many stories about conditions in Syria told by UB's Othman Shibly.
  • UB Department of Medicine Names New Chief of Nephrology Division
    10/1/12
    Richard J. Quigg Jr., MD, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and former chief of its nephrology section, has been named the inaugural Arthur M. Morris Chair in Nephrology and chief of the division of Nephrology in the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Pharmacy School Returns to City of Buffalo as Kapoor Hall Opens
    9/28/12
    Jovin Panthapattu feels like he's making history as he heads to class these days at the University at Buffalo.
  • UB Celebrates Kapoor Hall Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting
    9/27/12
    The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will become the first professional school in three decades to move back to UB's South Campus and into the City of Buffalo when UB celebrates the grand opening of John and Editha Kapoor Hall on Friday, Sept. 28, at 10:30 a.m. on UB's South Campus.
  • UB Medical School Names New Chair of Microbiology and Immunology
    9/27/12
    James (Jay) D. Bangs, PhD, professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School and an expert in the cell biology of the agent that causes African sleeping sickness, has been appointed the Grant T. Fisher Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Flu Season Has Begun, but Most College Students Ignore the Vaccine
    9/27/12
    Influenza spreads like wildfire on college campuses because of high-density living conditions. Its symptoms -- weakness, muscle pain, vomiting and diarrhea are unpleasant but usually not serious, although many people get very sick and thousands die every year in the U.S. from complications of the flu.
  • UB Awards Civic Engagement Research Fellowships
    9/25/12
    The University at Buffalo's UB 2020 Civic Engagement and Public Policy strategic initiative (CEPP) has awarded five new Civic Engagement Research Fellowships for 2012-13 to UB scholars in fields of communications and health sciences, education, law and social work.
  • UB Partners with Zimbabwe Universities to Create International Nanotechnology Center
    9/24/12
    With 14 percent of Zimbabwe's population living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis as a co-infection, the need for new drugs and new formulations of available treatments is crucial
  • Professor's Book Reveals the "Silent Epidemic" of Health Hazards Caused by Coal
    9/21/12
    Coal kills. That's the message of "The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health" by Alan H. Lockwood, MD, University at Buffalo emeritus professor of neurology.