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  • Home Modifications: UB-Designed Renovations Are Changing Lives, One Home at a Time
    9/29/11
    Even the smallest of home renovations can change the life of someone with a disability. Widening a doorway or adding grab bars around a toilet can mean the difference between independence and dependence -- between comfort and discomfort in one's own home.
  • Estradiol from Fatty Tissue Doesn't Cause Low Testosterone in Type 2 Diabetic Men
    9/27/11
    It's not estrogen produced by body fat that causes low levels of testosterone in type 2 diabetic men, according to a University at Buffalo study published last month in Diabetes Care.
  • Gaga's Anti-Bullying Stance Can Help, Says Expert
    9/23/11
    Lady Gaga and other celebrities commenting on bullying have the chance to teach young people about the horrors of bullying abuse, says the director of the University at Buffalo's Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse, a power that makes it important they act responsibly.
  • Behling Patient Simulation Center Transforms Health Sciences Education at UB
    9/20/11
    Before treating their first, live human patient, University at Buffalo students in the five health sciences schools will be able to safely practice a full range of medical procedures, from inserting catheters and delivering babies to resuscitating injured patients, thanks to the new Behling Simulation Center, which holds its grand opening today.
  • Wilsons Give $1 Million to UB Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Department
    9/20/11
    Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Demetrius Bell was looking forward to the team' first game of the 2009 regular season, having spent his entire rookie season the year before on the inactive roster. Bell had earned the left tackle spot for the opener against the New England Patriots, his first NFL career start. The Bills lost 25-24, but No. 77 went on to start in five more games that fall. It was during his sixth game that Bell suffered a knee injury that took him out of the game and off the playing field for nearly a year.
  • Media Advisory: "Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals: A Global Problem Come Home" is Topic of Pharmacy Keynote Address at UB
    9/15/11
    BUFFALO, N.Y. Steven Sutton, PhD, a 1983 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, will discuss the international security threat posed by counterfeit pharmaceuticals at an address to be held at 7 p.m. on Sept. 16 in 121 Cooke Hall on UB's North Campus.
  • Addictions Experts to Offer Fall Seminars at UB's Research Institute on Addictions
    9/14/11
    The University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) will present a fall seminar series featuring national experts beginning in October.
  • Culturally Deaf People Seeking Health Information Get Little Help from the Internet
    9/14/11
    A new study by a health communication researcher at UB finds that the Internet -- the source of much medical information for most of us -- poses multiple communication barriers for the culturally Deaf, barriers that go far beyond inconvenience and can seriously compromise their health in ways virtually unknown to the hearing population.
  • The Big Risk Factor for Stroke That You May Not Know You Have
    9/14/11
    A cardiac condition called atrial fibrillation, the most common cardiac arrhythmia, can increase your risk of stroke by 500 percent. That's why Anne B. Curtis, MD, Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of the University at Buffalo Department of Medicine, is helping to raise public awareness of the condition during September through the Heart Rhythm Society's AF Awareness Month.
  • New Clues to Molecular Understanding of Autism
    9/9/11
    The first transgenic mouse model of a rare and severe type of autism called Timothy Syndrome is improving the scientific understanding of autism spectrum disorder in general and may help researchers design more targeted interventions and treatments. The research is described in a paper published last week by scientists at the University at Buffalo and Stanford University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.