Health and Medicine

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

Dementia expert to speak at UB on caring for nation’s rapidly aging population
4/5/18
Ann Kolanowski, an internationally renowned expert on dementia and the complex care needs of the elderly, will discuss the difficulties of delirium during the University at Buffalo School of Nursing’s 21st Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture.
UB awarded federal funding to expand research team’s successful Veggie Van program
4/5/18
National Cancer Institute funding will allow Lucia Leone and her team to expand their work by helping organizations across the Northeast and Southeast start mobile markets using the Veggie Van model.
CTSI Translational Pilot Studies Program awards 11 new grants for 2018-19
4/2/18
The University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has awarded 11 new grants to support promising translational research projects in Western New York.
App for early autism detection launched on World Autism Awareness Day, April 2
4/2/18
The app, EarlySee, gives parents an easy-to-use tool to help identify the disorder earlier.
UB partners with South African, Zimbabwean universities to battle tuberculosis, HIV
3/26/18
To help fight the tuberculosis and HIV epidemics facing the world, the UB Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences will partner with the University of the Western Cape and University of Zimbabwe.
UB faculty receive funding to increase access to care for low-income cancer patients and improve success of weight loss surgery
3/26/18
UB School of Nursing faculty receive IMPACT award and CTSI Pilot Studies Program grant.
College education linked to opioid misuse among baby boomers
3/21/18
University at Buffalo research connects education, depression and more to prescription opioid abuse in adults over age 50.
In Buffalo, UB medical students learn about health disparities from those who bear the consequences
3/20/18
Medical disparities — and how aspiring physicians can begin to overcome them — is a theme of a new course begun this semester at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo.
Don’t blame adolescent social behavior on hormones
3/19/18
Reproductive hormones that develop during puberty are not responsible for changes in social behavior that occur during adolescence, according to new University at Buffalo research.
COPD: Culmination of 15 year-study creates a ‘looking glass’ into genome of most important pathogen and how to fight it
3/19/18
The first insights into the pathogen that does the most harm to patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and how it adapts to its host over months and even years, has been published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencses.

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