Health and Medicine

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  • Plant-Based Fats Slow Prostate Cancer Growth in Mice
    12/3/01
    Fats derived from plants appear to inhibit the growth and migration of one type of prostate cancer cell and to slow the growth of prostate tumors in laboratory mice, nutrition researchers at the University at Buffalo have found.
  • UB Nursing Researcher Studies Why Few People Take Charge of Their End-of-Life Medical Decisions
    11/30/01
    Why are so many people willing to relegate important medical decisions to strangers? That is the question a University at Buffalo nurse-anthropologist is attempting to answer in a study on medical advance directives funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research.
  • A Sign of the Times -- Reference Assistance Now Provided Online by "Instant Librarians"
    11/21/01
    University at Buffalo librarians are offering real-time, online reference assistance to students, some as far away as China, using AOL Instant Messenger software (AIM) in the popular chat room format.
  • U.S. in Danger of Repressing Human Rights in Ways for Which It Has Criticized Other Countries
    11/21/01
    In its efforts to prevent a repeat of the tragic events of Sept. 11, the United State is moving perilously close to creating in our own nation a police state where human rights are denied, according to a professor in the University at Buffalo Law School who is a human rights expert.
  • UB, Community Partners Receive $1.1 Million to Study Asthma, Lupus in Two Buffalo Neighborhoods
    11/19/01
    University at Buffalo researchers have received a five-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to assess environmental pollutants and their relationship to the prevalence of autoimmune disease, particularly lupus, and asthma in two Buffalo neighborhoods.
  • New Surgical Center to Use "Miniature Access" to Address Problems in Pediatric Patients
    11/13/01
    Children's Hospital of Buffalo and the University at Buffalo are taking the lead internationally in pediatric surgery with the opening of a $1.5 million Miniature Access Surgical Center (MASC) believed to be the most sophisticated of its kind in the world.
  • Award-Winning Paper Ties Failure of Neighborhood Revitalization Movement to Racist Policies, Practices
    11/13/01
    A paper by two University at Buffalo professors proposing a new approach to community revitalization has received the 2001 award for Best Action Research Paper on Housing and Community Development from the Fannie Mae Foundation and Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).
  • Sloan Foundation Funds Development of Three New Professional Master's Degree Programs at UB
    11/13/01
    In recognition of its strengths in bioinformatics and related areas, the University at Buffalo has been awarded a major grant to develop professional master's degrees in disciplines closely related to bioinformatics by the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
  • Ritalin May Cause Long-Lasting Changes in Brain-Cell Function, UB Researchers Find
    11/11/01
    Scientists at the University at Buffalo have shown that the drug methylphenidate, the generic form of Ritalin, which physicians have considered to have only short-term effects, appears to initiate changes in brain function that remain after the therapeutic effects have dissipated.
  • Security, Social Rewards Could Be More Important than Pay for Workers Affected by Threats of Anthrax, Terrorism
    11/5/01
    Faced with growing concerns about workplace safety as a result of Anthrax threats and the events of Sept. 11, employers hoping to retain employees and lessen employee fears should change the way they reward them, says an expert on compensation and human resources.