Health and Medicine

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  • Action of Critical Component in Immune System Activation Described for First Time by UB Scientists
    9/10/02
    Immunologists from the University at Buffalo are the first to describe a human immune system component known to be essential to controlling the activation of T-cells, the first line of defense against foreign antigens.
  • Government, Corporate and Foundation Partnerships Funding UB's Rise to Prominence in Bioinformatics and Supercomputing
    9/3/02
    The Dell supercomputer cluster unveiled today at the University at Buffalo is the result of a unique partnership between corporate, government and non-profit institutions that is establishing UB and the Buffalo Niagara region as a worldwide leader in supercomputing and bioinformatics.
  • Spin-Off Studies from Historic Women's Health Initiative Address Myriad Diverse Conditions in Men and Women
    9/3/02
    In the "one-thing-leads-to-another" nature of scientific research, hundreds of studies are underway at the University at Buffalo and other clinical sites of the Women's Health Initiative, spawned in whole or part by the 12-year, $625 million initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health.
  • More Than 2,000 Dell Servers to be Used for Advanced Research at UB
    9/3/02
    Dell and the University at Buffalo today announced one of the largest clusters of Linux servers ever at a U.S. educational institution.
  • Casting Events of Sept. 11 as Acts of 'War' Has Catastrophic Implications, Says UB Historian
    8/23/02
    The popular response to the events of 9/11 has been wholly appropriate, moving and important, says historian Michael Frisch, but now the "war" metaphor is being used at the policy level to justify actions whose consequences place the U.S. and its people in greater and greater danger.
  • Post-Sept. 11 Consumers Are More Introspective, Less Hedonistic, Says UB Marketing Professor
    8/22/02
    The appetites and spending habits of American consumers have changed substantially during the one-year period after Sept. 11, according to an expert on retail strategy and consumer perception at the University at Buffalo.
  • 9/11 Has Changed America's Sense of Self, Says UB Professor of American Culture
    8/22/02
    The Sept. 11 terrorists attacks have dramatically changed attitudes Americans have about themselves, their country and war, says Bruce Jackson, Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo.
  • High Starting Salaries, Expanded Roles Mean Opportunities for Pharmacists Have Never Been Better
    8/22/02
    A nationwide shortage of pharmacists, entry-level salaries as high as $100,000 and the expanded role pharmacists are playing in health-care delivery have boosted interest and prompted expansion in the professional pharmacy program at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and similar programs nationwide.
  • Sept. 11 News Clips Could Trigger Post-Traumatic Stress
    8/22/02
    Commemoration of the 9/11 tragedies may trigger episodes of post-traumatic stress in people who suffer from the disorder, says Nancy Smyth, associate professor in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. An expert on psychological trauma, Smyth says rebroadcast of news clips showing the tragic events could cause survivors to "relive" the events.
  • Early Detection of Bioterrorist Threat or Epidemic Is Goal of Software System for Medical Emergencies
    8/20/02
    Computer scientists at the University at Buffalo who developed handwriting recognition software systems for the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Census Bureau are developing a system to flag suspicious patterns in emergency medical reports and make them available to public-health authorities within days, if not hours.