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  • Better Health Research: Study shows orange juice can help counteract oxidative stress from high-carb meals
    4/27/10
    Husam A. Ghanim, senior research scientist of medicine, is quoted in a Better Health Research story on research that shows that individuals who drink acidic drinks such as orange juice help counteract oxidative stress brought on by high-carb meals.
  • Salon: ADHD expert finds no benefit from using stimulants to treat ADHD
    4/27/10
    An article in Salon about the growing controversy over psychiatric drug use and whether the drugs improve lives or are a warning sign of a dangerously over-medicated culture quotes William Pelham, on using stimulants to treat ADHD. "We need to confess to parents that we've found no benefit," he said.
  • Fast Company: Renowned landscape architect will design UB solar-array landscape installation
    4/26/10
    An article in Fast Company, a high-traffic business news website, reports that renowned landscape architect Walter Hood will design a combined solar-array landscape installation at UB, with construction of the sprawling park intended to make solar energy beautiful, scheduled to begin this summer. An article in the sustainability blog Green Technology also reports on Hood's design.
  • Live Science: Study shows smoking increases the risk of brain hemorrhages, even after quitting
    4/26/10
    An article on LiveScience.com about brain hemorrhages -- what they are, symptoms and the damage they can cause -- reports smoking increases the risk, even after an individual has quit smoking, according to a study conducted by researchers at UB and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
  • Brain and Spinal Cord Blog: UB wrestler Dan Bishop shows drastic improvement
    4/26/10
    An article on the Brain and Spinal Cord blog reports that UB wrestler Dan Bishop has shown drastic improvement since his spinal cord injury on March 6.
  • Religion Dispatches: Prisoner re-entry programs hard for states to do well, law prof says
    4/25/10
    A story in Religion Dispatches, a daily online religion magazine, about the Prison Fellowship Ministries' Out4Life program quotes Winnifred F. Sullivan, associate professor of law, who has written on the intersections of prison and religion. Re-entry programs are increasingly popular, but one of the "hardest things for a state to do well," says Sullivan.
  • UPI: UB med students planting a vegetable garden to improve their own diets
    4/24/10
    A UPI article reports UB medical students are planting a vegetable garden on campus to improve their own diets and learn more about nutrition for their patients.
  • Buffalo News: UB 2020 necessary to allow Buffalo and WNY to grow and prosper
    4/24/10
    An op-ed in Saturday's Buffalo News by William L. Joyce, chairman of the board of directors of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, states that UB 2020, in jeopardy due to inaction in Albany, is necessary to grow and prosper Buffalo and Western New York.
  • TIME Magazine: UB geologist interviewed about Iceland's volcanic ash plume
    4/23/10
    Marcus Bursik, UB professor of geology and expert on volcanic ash clouds, was quoted in a TIME Magazine story that described how an Icelandic volcano closed European air space for a week. "It was an eruption at the right place at the right time. Or, I guess, really, the other way around," he said.
  • Physics World: Volcanic hazards could become more commonplace due to climate change
    4/23/10
    An article in Physics World about the erupting Icelandic volcano reports geologists are warning that volcanic hazards such as this could become more commonplace due to climate change and quotes Michael Sheridan, professor emeritus of geology and founder of the Center for Geohazards Study.

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