Health and Medicine

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Study: Pregnant women with severe nausea, vomiting found relief with seizure drug
11/6/20
A rare, debilitating condition in pregnancy that causes nausea and vomiting so severe that some women end up terminating their pregnancies can be effectively treated with the seizure drug gabapentin.
CIGBS partners with Àvida Biotech to advance vaccines
11/3/20
The UB Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences will partner with Àvida Biotech to advance new antivirals and vaccines for neglected infectious diseases such as the dengue, Zika and Chikungunya viruses.
UB leads $3.7 million project to improve MRI technology
10/29/20
While effective, MRIs still have limitations that UB and research partners hope to solve.
Turning a coronavirus protein into a nanoparticle could be key for COVID-19 vaccine
10/28/20
Changing makeup of a specific protein has the potential to neutralize the virus.
UB spinoff Cytocybernetics receives funding to accelerate COVID-19 drug screening
10/28/20
University at Buffalo spinoff Cytocybernetics is developing a high-tech tool called CyberQ to rapidly assess whether or not investigational COVID-19 drugs have arrhythmogenic properties that can result in sudden cardiac death.
34% of older adults in the U.S. are prescribed potentially inappropriate drugs, raising health care costs
10/22/20
The prescription of potentially inappropriate medications to older adults is linked to increased hospitalizations, and costs patients, on average, more than $450 per year.
To improve medication use among older adults, UB’s Team Alice partners with U.S. Deprescribing Research Network
10/22/20
Team Alice, an initiative of the Center for Successful Aging, has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Deprescribing Network.
Jacobs School researchers help identify biomarker for concussions in saliva
10/20/20
In a landmark study led by Penn State College of Medicine, UBresearchers and peers from other institutions found that a combination of biomarkers in saliva can help objectively and accurately diagnose mild traumatic brain injury.
Explore & More launches “Sofia Learns About Research” in partnership with UB
10/15/20
The video game version of “Sofia," which debuted this week at Buffalo's children's museum, was created by researchers in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) to educate childrens and their parents about clinical research.
O’Donnell stepping down as dean of pharmacy school
10/14/20
James M. O’Donnell will return to a role as a faculty member after seven years as dean.

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