Health and Medicine

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Personalized medicine: To optimize treatment for individual patients, physicians should employ experimental designs
3/2/21
Providers should explore the concept of single case experimental designs, the purpose of which is to apply experimental methods to caring for individual patients in challenging cases, according to a new paper.
Even the current low rate of vaccinations is benefiting Western New York, new UB models show
2/25/21
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Western New York is already benefiting from COVID-19 vaccinations, according to new models developed by University at Buffalo data scientists.
UB’s Human Rights Initiative shares its expertise
2/24/21
Kim Griswold, MD, faculty mentor of UB's Human Rights Initiative, gave a talk to potential medical volunteers on “Insights and Best Practices for Medical Evaluations in the Context of Immigration Applications."
COVID-19 vaccine developed by UB startup approved for human trials
2/23/21
The vaccine candidate, under development by POP Biotechnologies and biotech firm EuBiologics, will be tested in South Korea.
How a gene called HAND2 may impact the timing of labor
2/19/21
A study explores the role of HAND2 in human and mammalian pregnancy.
UB PhD students lead #BlackInSciComm, #BlackInNano movements
2/18/21
The movements, born during months of protests in 2020, celebrate Black voices in STEM.
UB biostatistics researcher pursues gold standard in pharmacovigilance
2/16/21
FDA-funded project aims to develop new methods for monitoring safety of new medications, vaccines.
UB physician is co-author on new international guidelines on treating COVID-19
2/15/21
Manoj J. Mammen, MD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine is one of 43 clinicians from 14 countries who co-authored the newest global guidelines on treating patients with severe illness from COVID-19.
What rules govern the structure of membraneless organelles?
2/8/21
A study in Nature Communications outlines physical rules regulating the architecture of these liquid organelles.
How elephants evolved to become big and cancer-resistant
2/4/21
A study shows that elephants possess a large toolbox of genes for evading cancer, and suggests that evolution of tumor suppression capabilities contributed to the development of big bodies.

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