Health and Medicine

News about UB’s health sciences programs and related community outreach. (see all topics)

Demystifying clinical trials with Circuit Clinical
5/2/19
The Buffalo startup and UB partner is making clinical trials easier for patients, doctors and drugmakers.
National physician licensing organization elects UB’s Milling to executive board
5/1/19
The election is testimony to his leadership in medical education and a major point of pride for the Jacobs School.
Providers split on who should prescribe HIV prevention drug
4/30/19
UB researcher also authored first paper to survey pharmacy students about their knowledge of and attitudes toward pre-exposure prophylaxis.
UB joins the Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
4/30/19
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and UB's Clinical Research Institute on Addictions are among more than 100 organizations that have joined the national effort.
UB holds first annual Women’s Vascular Summit
4/30/19
To better understand how gender may affect women’s vascular health, physicians and surgeons at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are holding a Women’s Vascular Summit May 3-4.
Preventing bloodshed in Brooklyn: UB medical school alum to discuss his public health approach to curbing street violence
4/25/19
Robert J. Gore, a UB alumnus, will discuss KAVI, the ambitious violence-prevention initiative he founded, aimed at supporting young people of color in his Brooklyn community.
Lupus-microbiome connection in India is focus of UB professor’s Fulbright research
4/25/19
A University at Buffalo researcher will use a Fulbright scholarship to study how ethnicity and geography affect patients in India diagnosed with the autoimmune disease commonly known as lupus.
When pregnant women take kratom, their babies may suffer
4/24/19
Toxicology screens don’t detect kratom, but it can cause withdrawal in newborns.
Grant establishes fellowship in non-malignant blood disorders
4/17/19
Western New York BloodCare has awarded the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences a second grant aimed at addressing a shortage of physicians in the region who specialize in treating non-malignant blood disorders.
UB receives Fulbright award to bring international scholars to Buffalo for opioid crisis education
4/16/19
UB has been selected to host nearly 100 Fulbright Foreign Students from around the world in late April for a three-day Fulbright Enrichment Seminar titled “Combating Addiction and Addressing the Opioid Crisis.”

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