Health and Medicine

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

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.
NASA-funded study aims to map air pollution in front of our faces
7/31/19
The $528,000 grant, awarded to UB RENEW scientist Kang Sun, will examine levels of nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, formaldehyde and other pollutants.
Compound found in red wine opens door for new treatments for depression, anxiety
7/26/19
A new University at Buffalo-led study has revealed that the plant compound resveratrol, which is found in red wine, displays anti-stress effects by blocking the expression of an enzyme related to the control of stress in the brain.
New research on COPD aims to selectively ‘disarm’ specific pathogens
7/25/19
A University at Buffalo team has received a five-year, $2.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant aimed at developing a much more precise method of treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Powerful opioid treatment program developed at UB goes statewide
7/24/19
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A program developed by University at Buffalo emergency medicine physicians to expedite patient access to comprehensive and effective opioid use disorder treatment is going statewide.
Veggie Van study awards funding to nine partner mobile markets
7/22/19
Organizations in Buffalo and Long Island, as well as North Carolina, Massachusetts and Ohio, will start or expand their operations as part of UB research project.
UB center helps bring local dental products to market
7/19/19
The UB Center for Dental Studies performs scientific and clinical studies for new products by companies around the world, from Colgate-Palmolive to Western New York startups.
Researchers present first clinical proof that individual genotypes determine if Alzheimer's disease drugs will work
7/17/19
UB researchers’ insights into a target that succeeded in animals but failed in humans reveal a new paradigm for screening Alzheimer’s drugs.

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