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  • 50 Students Honored at UB Medical School Commencement
    7/3/02
    Fifty graduates of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences received awards at the school's recent commencement ceremony.
  • UB School of Pharmacy First in the U.S. to Require Future Pharmacists to Take Pharmacogenomics
    6/27/02
    This fall, in addition to Biochemical Principles and Human Physiology, students studying to be pharmacists in the University at Buffalo's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will be taking a course in pharmacogenomics.
  • Physical Aggression Common in the Lives of Young Adults
    6/26/02
    The prevalence of physical aggression among adults "eclipses rates based on police reports or victimization surveys by a factor of 10," according to a study by University at Buffalo researchers recently reported in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. They found that 1 in every 3 men between the ages of 18 and 30 and 1 in 5 women in that age category are the target of physically aggressive behavior on an annual basis.
  • Importance of Early Environmental Exposure Pinpointed in Study of Breast Cancer Development
    6/24/02
    Where a woman lives at birth and puberty may have an impact on her risk of developing breast cancer later, findings from a novel study conducted by geographers and epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo have shown.
  • UB Scientists Report Fast, Simple Method of Generating "Designer" RNA Catalysts for Proteomics
    6/24/02
    University at Buffalo chemists have developed a remarkably simple and effective biotechnological method for synthesis of novel proteins using amino acids that do not occur in nature by using unique, programmable ribozymes (enzymes made of RNA, or ribonucleic acid) that they evolved in the lab. The technology provides a potentially important new tool in the field of proteomics, where scientists are working to understand all of the proteins that have been identified through the human genome project.
  • Estrogen May Lower Women's Risk of Heart Disease by Working as Damper on Inflammation, UB Study Shows
    6/20/02
    Estrogen's ability to reduce a woman's risk of heart disease during her reproductive years may be based on a previously unexamined mechanism of the hormone: its anti-inflammatory effects.
  • Study Finds Profound Vitamin D Deficiency in Kashmiri Women
    6/20/02
    The first study of vitamin D status in a group of Kashmiri women and their babies has revealed across-the-board deficiency of the nutrient, which increases the risk of rickets, osteoporosis, other bone disorders and muscle weakness in this population.
  • If Screening Shows Osteoporosis, Many Women May Not Tell Their Physician or Begin Treatment, UB Study Finds
    6/18/02
    Osteoporosis, a disease of bone-thinning that puts women at risk of serious fractures, is underdiagnosed and undertreated, a study by University at Buffalo researchers presented today at the annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiological Research has found. Nearly half of 836 women in a population-based study who underwent screening for osteoporosis for the first-time were found to have undiagnosed disease, results showed. Moreover, follow-up a year later revealed that half of those diagnosed with osteoporosis did not begin treatment to slow progression of the disorder and a quarter failed to discuss the screening results with their physician
  • Eating High-Fat Meal Raises Blood's Proinflammatory Factors; Vitamins E and C Counter that Response
    6/16/02
    In a series of studies designed to define the role of dietary macronutrients in the initiation of arterial inflammation that predisposes a person to atherosclerosis, University at Buffalo researchers have found that a high intake of glucose, or eating a high-fat, high-calorie fast-food meal causes an increase in the blood's inflammatory components.
  • Insulin Sensitizer Has Anti-Inflammatory Effect in Diabetics
    6/15/02
    A drug used widely as an insulin sensitizer appears also to have a significant anti-inflammatory effect in diabetics, a property that could make it useful in helping to prevent heart disease in these patients, a study by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has found.