Health and Medicine

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EMS workers save lives. Their nutrition habits are threatening their own
8/29/19
New study will examine the eating habits of emergency medical services workers, over 70% of whom are overweight or obese.
Expert applauds new draft recommendation for HCV screening
8/27/19
Screening for adults ages 18-79 is what’s needed to address the dramatic increase in incidence of the disease, the draft says.
Solve this! In just five days, UB student teams addressed a critical surgical problem
8/26/19
This summer, five teams of UB students who didn’t know each other from Adam came together in a startup boot camp to develop a medical device to solve a devastating and costly surgical complication.
Scientists probe how distinct liquid organelles in cells are created
8/21/19
Membrane-less organelles, found inside human cells, have a variety of important biological functions, from gene regulation to stress response.
Nursing researchers receive grants to develop smoking, sleep interventions
8/20/19
Researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing have received two grants totaling more than $260,000 to develop interventions that help young adults quit smoking and improve sleep among people with multiple sclerosis.
Vegetable-rich Wahls diet lowers fatigue in multiple sclerosis patients by raising good cholesterol
8/15/19
Higher levels of blood high-density lipoprotein (HDL) — or good cholesterol — may improve fatigue in multiple sclerosis patients, according to a new UB-led study.
Study: Air pollution can accelerate lung disease as much as a pack of cigarettes a day
8/13/19
Results are based on an extensive, 18-year study involving more than 7,000 people and a detailed examination of the air pollution they encountered between 2000 and 2018.
Global well-being is the focus of a new movement led by UB psychiatrist
8/8/19
At the World Psychiatric Association Congress in Lisbon, international participants will meet to discuss the idea and how to promote it.
Capes and coloring books in English, Spanish and Arabic welcome the littlest ‘research rangers’
8/5/19
At a recent Storytime event, children received colorful capes identifying them as “research rangers” and coloring books called “Sofia Learns About Research,” created by UB’s clinical researchers and designed to educate them and their parents about clinical research.
How do clots become firm in the presence of blood flow? A new engineered tissue model has answers
8/5/19
University at Buffalo researchers have established a model of the blood clotting process that will help clinicians improve presurgical planning and care for patients with certain bleeding disorders.