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  • UB Study Shows Those With Less Than 12 Years Education Face Twice the Risk of Dying from Stroke
    2/21/02
    If policymakers need one more reason to press for a good education for all Americans, here it is: Education is a boon to public health. University at Buffalo researchers have found that as education level goes up, risk of death from stroke and brain hemorrhage goes down. The relationship likely exists for other chronic diseases, as well.
  • Habitually Sleeping More Than 8 Hours, Need for Daytime Nap Signal Increased Risk of Death From Stroke, Study Finds
    2/15/02
    Daytime nappers and people who routinely sleep more than eight hours a night have a greater chance of dying from stroke than those with more standard sleep habits, a study by stroke researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown.
  • UB Team Finds Effectiveness of Steroids Drops Sharply as "Severe" Tolerance Occurs Within Hours of Exposure
    2/12/02
    A team of University at Buffalo researchers that has been at the forefront of quantifying and predicting the complex effects of drugs, now has found in animal studies that there is a "severe" tolerance to steroids that occurs soon after their initial use that blunts the effects of the drugs.
  • Diabetes-Brittle Bones Link Underscores Need for Earlier Education About Osteoporosis
    2/8/02
    The importance of educating women who have type 1 diabetes about osteoporosis at a much earlier age is underscored by preliminary data from research at the University at Buffalo showing that diabetes and brittle bones may go hand in hand.
  • Nation's First Degree with Focus in Pharmacometrics, One of Drug Industry's Highest-Paying Fields, Offered at UB
    1/30/02
    The nation's first master's degree program in pharmaceutics with a focus in pharmacometrics, a new field that fuses pharmacologic studies with computational and statistical methods of data analysis, has been developed at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • A Breach of Trust: Enron Case Will Cause Some Americans to Question How Much They Trust Their Employers
    1/23/02
    In the wake of the Enron debacle, many Americans will begin to question how much they trust their employers, says a University at Buffalo School of Management professor who researches the development and consequences of trust in the workplace.
  • UB Researchers to Study Exercise as Treatment for Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
    1/17/02
    University at Buffalo researchers will test the somewhat counterintuitive concept that exercise can lessen tiredness in persons with multiple sclerosis, a group especially susceptible to fatigue.
  • Trauma Memories Increase Drug Abusers' Craving
    1/3/02
    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases craving in drug abusers diagnosed with both conditions, confirming the need to treat the conditions simultaneously, the first laboratory study of the two disorders has shown.
  • UB Receives $1 Million from NSF to Fund System to Store Huge Amounts of Computer Data
    12/21/01
    A $1 million National Science Foundation infrastructure award to store, manage and analyze complex scientific data is boosting pioneering research at the University at Buffalo in bioinformatics, geographic information science and other important research areas.
  • UB MBA Graduates Play Important Role in Strategic Growth of Perry's Ice Cream
    12/19/01
    Business isn't always smooth in the ice cream industry. Over the past 20 years, nearly 1,200 companies have closed their doors, leaving just over 400 firms to compete for space in America's freezer. To survive and grow in this competitive market, Perry's Ice Cream Co. of Akron, N.Y., boasts an evolving selection of nearly 100 different flavors -- and a management roster of eight MBAs from the University at Buffalo School of Management.