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With one click, ‘digital pipeline’ automates classification of diabetic kidney disease
9/5/19
UB researchers have developed a new method that automates the classification of progressive diabetic kidney disease.
Media Advisory: UB dental school to offer free services to veterans, spouses in Mayville
8/30/19
The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine will return to the Southern Tier to provide one week of free dental care to veterans and their spouses in the area through the Dentistry Smiles on Veterans program.
Buffalo biotech startup guides UB discoveries to market for dental patients
8/30/19
Technology based on research from the lab of UB oral biology professor Praveen Arany has led to the formation of startup OptiMed Techonology.
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.