Health and Medicine

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  • UB Expert: Most People Exposed to West Nile Virus Never Have Symptoms, But Prevention is Best Defense in this High Incidence Year
    8/27/12
    While the death toll from the West Nile virus cases in the U.S., currently 41, is alarming, most people exposed to it never develop symptoms, notes Tom Russo, MD, professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • West Nile Virus Could Still Have an Impact in WNY, Says UB Professor of Medicine
    8/24/12
    Richard Lee, MD, professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, says it's too early to assume that we won't see a spike in cases, even though we are now into late summer.
  • UB Chair of Medicine is Honored for Her Distinguished Clinical Research
    8/22/12
    BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Anne B. Curtis, MD, Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded the Walter Bleifeld Memorial Award for Distinguished Work in Clinical Research.
  • UB's School of Social Work Adopts Trauma-Informed Care as a Guiding Principle
    8/20/12
    Like many powerful ideas, the essence is simple. Those dealing with people who have a mental illness or addiction problem have to start asking what has happened to the person that may be causing the issue, not just focus on what the person did and what went wrong.
  • Media Advisory: 143 Future Physicians to Participate in UB's White Coat Ceremony
    8/17/12
    One hundred and forty-three students will take their first, public step toward becoming physicians on Aug. 17 when they participate in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences' White Coat Ceremony at 3 p.m. in the Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on the North Campus.
  • World's Largest Tobacco Use Study Reveals Tobacco Control Remains A Major Challenge
    8/17/12
    An international survey of tobacco use in three billion individuals, published in the current issue of The Lancet demonstrates an urgent need for policy change in low- and middle-income countries, according to the University at Buffalo professor who led the research.
  • RIA Gets Close to $1 Million to Study Aspects of Gambling, Alcoholism and Smoking
    8/14/12
    What are the effects of gambling availability among specific populations? How do you control that impulse to have "just one more drink"? Can a spouse really help a loved one quit smoking?
  • RIA, Gov. Cuomo on Same Page When It Comes to Bath Salts
    8/7/12
    Today, as Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced recent New York State Department of Health (DOH) regulations that crack down on bath salts on the University at Buffalo's South Campus, the UB Research Institute on Addictions was releasing another in its series of expert summaries.
  • Genco Receives Prestigious Award from AAP
    7/25/12
    Robert J. Genco, DDS, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor, director of the University at Buffalo Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) and UB professor of periodontics and endodontics is the recipient of the American Academy of Periodontology's (AAP) Distinguished Scientist Award for 2012.
  • UB Pioneer in AIDS Clinical Pharmacotherapy Honored by National Organization
    7/20/12
    Eugene D. Morse, PharmD, professor of pharmacy practice and associate director of the Translational Pharmacology Core in the University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, has been honored with this year's Volwiler Research Achievement Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) for outstanding research and contributions to the fields of clinical/translational pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences.