Health and Medicine

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  • History of Madness the Focus of UB Humanities Conference
    10/23/08
    The various histories of "madness" and what the term means today will be the subject of extensive discussion at the University at Buffalo's 2008 Humanities Institute Conference October 31-November 1.
  • RWJF Senior Vice President and UB Grad to Present 2008 Perry Lecture
    10/21/08
    James S. Marks, M.D., M.P.H., senior vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and a 1973 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will be in Buffalo on Oct. 31 to present the 20th Annual J. Warren Perry Lecture.
  • Couples with Children with ADHD at Risk of Higher Divorce Rates, Shorter Marriages
    10/21/08
    Parents of a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are nearly twice as likely to divorce by the time the child is 8 years old than parents of children without ADHD, the first study to look at this issue in depth has shown.
  • Depression and Suicidal Thoughts Among Police Officers Differ Based on Gender and Work Shift, Study Finds
    10/16/08
    A quarter of female police officers and nearly as many male officers assigned to shift work had thought about taking their own lives, a new study of police work patterns and stress headed by a University at Buffalo researcher has shown.
  • Internationally Known Author, Nursing Researcher to Present 2008 Bullough Lecture
    10/14/08
    Patricia E. Benner, Ph.D., an internationally known nurse-researcher and lecturer, will present the UB School of Nursing's 12th Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 in the Adams Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo.
  • Using Social Media to Inspire College Students to Join Organ Donor Registry is Aim of New Grant
    10/14/08
    New York State's registry of residents willing to donate their organs and tissue if they are fatally injured lags behind those of states with less population and newer registries. Only 7 percent of New York residents have signed formally onto the state's electronic registry. A University at Buffalo specialist in health communication wants to change that.
  • 'Credit Crunch' Will Hit Retirees in Unequal Ways
    10/9/08
    How severely retirees will be affected by the continuing financial crisis and subsequent "credit crunch" depends to a considerable extent on the kinds of retirement plans they rely on for retirement income, according to a University at Buffalo Law School professor who specializes in the regulation of retirement plans and other employee-benefit plans.
  • $7.6 Million Contract Establishes International HIV/AIDS Clinical Pharmacology Quality Assurance and Quality Control Program and Lab at UB
    10/7/08
    A $7.6 million, seven-year contract awarded to the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo will provide the funds to train in-country laboratory specialists where HIV/AIDS infection rates are highest globally, test their proficiency and conduct quality control analysis of HIV/AIDS clinical trials.
  • Statin-Induced Muscle Disorders are Focus of $2.5 Million in Grants from NIH
    10/2/08
    Approximately 200,000 of the 38 million people in the U.S. who take statins to treat high cholesterol may develop life-threatening muscle disease. Currently there is no comprehensive way to identify those who may be at risk for this debilitating condition, but new research by University at Buffalo scientists may correct that situation.
  • UB Dental School, Area Dentists, Combine Forces to Improve Children's Dental Health
    9/30/08
    Taking children to the dentist is important to their overall health, but for many families in Western New York, dental care is an unaffordable luxury. From Oct. 6-11, however, seeing a dentist will be free or cost little, thanks to 35 dentists in communities throughout Western New Work and at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine.