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  • The Chemical Leupeptin Protects Against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss In Animal Model, UB Hearing Researchers Show
    4/6/99
    Researchers in the University at Buffalo Center for Hearing and Deafness have shown for the first time that a compound called leupeptin may help protect against the noise-induced hearing loss caused by living in noisy industrialized societies.
  • First Trial Comparing Adderall to Ritalin For ADHD Shows It to Be Longer-Lasting, Equally As Effective
    4/5/99
    The first trial of comparable doses of Ritalin, the standard treatment for children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Adderall, another drug used to treat ADHD, has shown that Adderall lasts longer than Ritalin and is at least as effective.
  • Health Sciences Library Receives Federal Grant For Online Medical-Information System
    3/26/99
    The University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library has received a grant from the National Library of Medicine to fund strategic planning for an integrated, online medical-information environment.
  • Lack of Exercise, High Intakes of Sugar And Saturated Fat: A Recipe For Gallstones, UB Study Shows
    2/23/99
    The Western lifestyle of little exercise, lots of saturated fat, loads of refined sugar and little fiber is a major risk factor for the development of yet another chronic medical condition -- gallstones -- a new University at Buffalo study shows.
  • Plant-Based Fat May Reduce Risk of Prostate Cancer By Altering Testosterone Metabolism, UB Study Shows
    2/23/99
    Plant-based fats may cut the risk of prostate cancer by reducing the levels of both testosterone and certain enzymes that metabolize testosterone into more active forms, a new study by University at Buffalo nutrition researchers has shown.
  • UB Epidemiologist Receives Grant to Study Links Between Insulin, Sexual Hormones And Risk of Breast Cancer
    2/3/99
    A University at Buffalo epidemiologist has received a two-year $238,000 grant to conduct the first major study of the relationship between breast-cancer risk and levels of insulin in the blood.
  • Bringing Kids Into Adult Justice System Has Done Little to Hold Them Accountable For Offenses or Reduce Crime, UB Books Claims
    4/2/96
    Although implementation of a law that lowered the age at which juveniles in New York State can be prosecuted as adults for some crimes has calmed many critics of the juvenile-justice system, it has done little to hold juveniles accountable for their offenses or reduce the rate of violent juvenile crime, a University at Buffalo sociologist maintains.