Research News

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  • Genetic variant may be key to some kids' heart failure
    12/12/25

    The findings of a study strongly suggest that genetic testing should be done on all children with heart failure and myocarditis.

  • Highlighting success of START-UP NY
    6/18/15

    Business owners spoke during a roundtable discussion about how START-UP NY is helping them build their respective companies.

  • Easing transitions
    6/15/15

    UB Nursing faculty member Sharon Hewner is working on a system to automate hospital discharge communication, potentially reducing the number of patients readmitted to hospitals.

  • Addressing mental health needs
    6/15/15

    People with significant mental health needs are receiving quality psychiatric care in the community, instead of the hospital, thanks to two innovative programs developed by UB psychiatrists.

  • Texas officer should not have been sent to pool party
    6/12/15

    UB faculty member John Violanti says that after responding to two calls involving a suicide and a suicide attempt, the McKinney, Texas, police officer had been through enough trauma for one day and shouldn’t have been sent to the pool party,

  • Escape ‘unheard of’
    6/11/15

    UB faculty member Charles Ewing says the escape of two inmates from an upstate New York maximum-security prison last week took intelligence, planning, luck and most likely some assistance.

  • Improving life for aging population
    6/11/15

    Five UB faculty members have received grants from UB's Institute for Person-Centered Care to develop approaches, technologies and service models aimed at helping people age well.

  • Skip a beat? Auditory nerve cells will know
    6/11/15

    A UB study has found that the strength of an auditory nerve cell’s response to sound does change in nonrandom ways in response to complex, ongoing activity.

  • 'Tip of the iceberg'
    6/11/15

    The recent breach of data involving 4 million federal employees was no surprise to UB faculty member Arun Vishwanath, who says there's no way now to stop such hacks from happening.

  • Does class size (still) matter?
    6/11/15

    The answer is unequivocally ‘yes,’ UB faculty member Jeremy Finn writes in a chapter in a soon-to-be-published book.

  • Threat to liberties
    6/11/15

    UB Law professor Mark Bartholomew says expansion of the National Security Agency’s cyberspying poses a “serious threat” to Americans’ civil liberties.