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  • Steroids Trigger a 'Domino Effect' on Genes at Different Points in Time, UB Studies Find
    6/18/03
    Corticosteroids, drugs that simultaneously deliver powerful therapeutic effects and potentially severe adverse effects, cause a remarkably complex "domino effect" of genomic changes, according to a landmark paper by University at Buffalo pharmaceutical scientists.
  • UB Scientists Patent Novel Inhibitor of Poxvirus Replication; Work Could Result in Treatment for Smallpox
    6/17/03
    Molecular biologists at the University at Buffalo have discovered a novel way to inhibit the replication of poxviruses, the group that includes smallpox virus, by interfering with messenger RNA synthesis necessary for the viruses to reproduce in a host organism.
  • Perry Continues Support of UB School of Public Health and Health Professions with $100,000 Gift
    6/17/03
    J. Warren Perry, founding dean of the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions, has given $100,000 to the school.
  • Prevalence of Problem Gambling Among Youths Focus of Study
    6/13/03
    Researchers in the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions will be gauging the prevalence of problem gambling among adolescents and young adults in a study funded by a new four-year, $1,827,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
  • Having More than Two Alcoholic Drinks at a Time Increases Younger Women's Breast Cancer Risk by 80 Percent
    6/12/03
    Results from a case-control study on alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk conducted by epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo indicate that premenopausal women who usually have more than two drinks per occasion have an 80 percent greater risk of developing breast cancer than women who drink less on each occasion.
  • GIS Technology Helps Link Premenopausal Breast Cancer with Place of Birth, Residence at Time of Menarche
    6/10/03
    Geographers and epidemiologists from the University at Buffalo, using life-course data from a cohort of breast cancer patients and controls in Western New York and geographic information systems (GIS) technology, have shown that women who developed breast cancer before menopause tend to cluster based on where they were born and where they lived when they began menstruating.
  • Preventionfocus to Honor UB's Suzanne Tomkins for Work in Domestic Violence Prevention
    6/10/03
    Suzanne E. Tomkins, clinical associate professor in the University at Buffalo Law School, will be recognized for her tireless work in the area of domestic violence at a dinner to be held Preventionfocus at 6 p.m. June 19 in Salvatore's Italian Gardens, 6461 Transit Rd., Depew.
  • UB School of Nursing Honors Graduates at Commencement
    6/6/03
    Eleven students in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing received awards at the school's recent commencement ceremony.
  • UB Study Shows How and When You Drink, Not Only How Much, Is Important to Liver Health, Especially in Women
    6/5/03
    In the first study of drinking patterns and their relationship to potential liver damage, University at Buffalo epidemiologists have found that how and when drinkers consume alcohol may be as important to a healthy liver as the amount consumed.
  • UB's Jacobson Named Director of the Year by National Campus Child Care Coalition
    6/4/03
    Tamar Jacobson, Ph.D., of North Buffalo, director of the University at Buffalo Child Care Center Inc., which operates child-care centers on the UB North and South campuses, was selected "director of the year" by the National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers (NCCCC) at the group's annual meeting this spring in Washington, D.C.