Registered Dietician Dana Ingebretson wants you to "Just Say Yes
to Fruits and Vegetables." It may sound simple, but access to
healthy food options often prove confusing for folks who rely on
food stamps in Western New York.
Researchers from UB and Cardiff University were instrumental in
creating a special themed issue of the quarterly journal Built
Environment focused on food equity, an increasingly important topic
in planning and design disciplines.
UB tied for 117th overall among U.S. colleges and universities
— the highest rating of any SUNY nstitution — according
to the 2018 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College
Rankings.
UB's Marianthi Markatou is one of 30 Greek- and Cypriot-born
scholars hailing from a cross section of 28 prominent U.S. and
Canadian universities who are traveling to Greece.
Five-year grant is a reflection of the recognition UB has
received from the National Institutes of Health for the
program’s outstanding record of cancer epidemiology
training.
A postdoctoral researcher in UB's School of Public Health and
Health Professions has been awarded a Banting Fellowship,
Canada’s most prestigious award for postdoctoral
researchers.
Postmenopausal women who have a history of gum disease have a
higher risk of cancer, according to a UB-led study of more than
65,000 women that's also the first to report an association between
the disease and gallbladder cancer risk.
The UB math students competing on NBC’s second season of
“Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge” edged out the
competition by six seconds in the second round of the series,
earning a trip to the final night of competition.
Learning from the ‘mammalian diving reflex,’
UB researchers have successfully tested face cooling to prevent
steep drops in blood pressure during simulated blood loss, a
prehospital intervention that EMTs and battlefield medics could one
day use to save lives.
Inequity is evident globally, with less than 1 percent of
households in Ethiopia and 96.4 percent in Serbia having access to
soap and water for handwashing.
Twenty-five UB students will receive $25,000 in scholarship and
internship support through fellowship program made possible by the
Prentice Family Foundation.
Four UB students are competing on the upcoming season of
“Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge,” the hit NBC
competition series featuring a mile-long obstacle course filled
with mud, water and fire.
While tobacco control advocates are pushing for "a kind of
prohibition" on cigarettes, the cannabis community is doing quite
the opposite, researchers say.
Officers who work afternoons are more likely to be fatigued,
which puts them at greater risk for accidents, errors and stress,
according to results of UB-led study that won first place in
national conference poster competition.
One study will look at the barriers to PrEP usage through
interviews with patients and clinicians, while the other will
investigate a less invasive method for measuring PrEP
adherence.
Beginning in fall 2017, UB's School of Public Health and Health
Professions will offer three new academic programs: undergraduate
degrees in public health and statistics, and a combined
bachelor’s in exercise science and master’s in athletic
training.
The School of Public Health and Health Professions’ 2017
Step Challenge was a rousing success, with 1,700 participants
taking more than 300 million steps.
Patricia J. Ohtake, associate professor of physical therapy in
the Department of Rehabilitation Science, School of Public Health
and Health Professions, has been appointed assistant vice president
for interprofessional education.
James Smist was seven years old when his father, Felix Smist,
graduated in mechanical engineering from the UB School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Annual summit convenes scholars, resettlement agencies, service
providers, community support centers, municipal agencies and
refugees to explore barriers and solutions to promote culturally
engaged health care for refugees in Buffalo.
UB-led study is among the largest and focuses exclusively on
postmenopausal women in whom periodontitis, total tooth loss and
cardiovascular disease is high nationally.
All 52 UB occupational therapy graduates who took the 2016
National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapists (NBCOT)
exam within a year of graduation passed the test.
Freudenheim will present research on periodontal disease and
breast cancer in postmenopausal women as part of the 41st annual
American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) Conference in
Seattle.
UB researcher says public health experts need to be more up
front with parents in explaining that CDC dietary recommendations
may not help children who have been exposed to lead.
FDA ad campaign geared toward rural teens who use smokeless
tobacco products fails to provide public with important information
on relative risks of smokeless tobacco compared to traditional
cigarettes, Kozlowski and Sweanor write.
A study of more than 300 members of the Buffalo Police
Department suggests that police events or conditions considered
highly stressful by officers may be associated with disturbances of
the normal awakening cortisol pattern.
iPad Minis, Fitbits, fitness gear and other prizes are up for
grabs this spring as the Step Challenge sponsored by the University
at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions returns
for a second year.
Researchers will tackle urban infrastructure and groundwater,
air pollution, green infrastructure and stormwater management, and
development of lower-cost solar cells.
Among their findings, researchers discovered that nicotine
levels in 'washed' hookah tobacco products were 236 percent higher,
overall, than the product labeling claimed.
Google’s Toilet Locator could provide an innovative
solution to India’s open defecation problem in urban locales,
but major challenges remain in mitigating the issue in rural areas
where it’s most common, says Pavani Ram.
Two projects addressing refugee health issues in Buffalo and a
study on the effects of air pollution on pregnant women in China
have been selected to receive funding through the Community for
Global Health Equity.
Sandro Galea, dean of Boston University's School of Public
Health, will discuss the public health issues related to gun
violence in a talk titled “Can We Mitigate the Gun Violence
Epidemic?”
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Nine hundred University at Buffalo
students from the health professions, social work, law and
management will learn how they can best work together to tackle the
opioid epidemic ravaging the nation at UB’s first annual
Interprofessional Forum on Nov. 7 in Kapoor Hall on the South
Campus.
It’s one of the only research centers in the world that
allows scientists to study extreme environments, from a mile of
ocean depth to nearly 23 miles into Earth’s stratosphere, and
everything in between. And it’s back up and running in its
home at UB.
UB pharmacy and physical therapy students will travel across
Western New York to improve the health of local older adults
through the new Interprofessional Falls Risk Reduction Program.
In a new finding, UB researchers have shown in mice that
glutamate plays a vital role in controlling how muscles and nerves
are wired together during development.
UB developed smartphone app for people living with HIV may help
lead to faster intervention in cases where substance use — or
life in general — get in the way of antiretroviral therapy
adherence.
R. Lorraine Collins was named to committee that will develop a
report summarizing adverse health effects of marijuana use,
drug’s potential therapeutic uses.
Panel's recommendations are not warranted until long-term
studies on representative samples of smokers show this is good for
public health overall, Lynn T. Kozlowski writes in new journal
paper.
Through the Global Innovation Challenge, teams of UB students
developed actionable ideas to improve water, sanitation and hygiene
— or WaSH — access to schoolchildren in India and
Uganda.
STAC panel members review scientific and medical evidence and
offer recommendations to the WTC Health Program administrator on
member eligibility criteria, as well as WTC-related health
conditions.
It's time to modernize the decades-old tobacco control
strategies that rely on an “all or nothing” approach
and which are confusing the public, Lynn Kozlowski and David Abrams
write.
The American Association for Cancer Research presented its 10th
annual Team Science Award to the Women's Health Initiative, for
which UB serves as Northeast Regional Center.
UB's Research Institute on Addictions will continue its critical
research training and professional development of addiction
researchers with the support of another five-year, $2 million grant
for training postdoctoral associates.
UB undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students will work in
teams to develop social, economic, technological and public policy
solutions to sanitation challenges faced by schoolchildren around
the world.
"I think the new regulations will pose problems for smaller
businesses that make e-cigarettes. These companies likely will not
have the resources to deliver all the information the FDA is asking
for," says UB tobacco expert Gary Giovino.
Millions of people visit the websites of the Mayo Clinic,
American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, among others, seeking authoritative health information.
But are they receiving it?
The University at Buffalo is establishing a new center to
conduct research on the human microbiome, the collective
microorganisms that live on and in the human body.
Post-menopausal women who use metformin long-term for the
treatment of diabetes may be at lower risk for developing certain
cancers and dying from these diseases.
The percentage of African-American high school seniors who smoke
has changed very little over the past two decades, UB tobacco
expert Gary Giovino reports in a journal supplement he
co-edited.
From refugee housing plans to help spur economic development on
Buffalo’s East Side, to a health summit and a symposium, UB
faculty and students are actively engaged in refugee efforts.
Issam Smeir is the keynote speaker for UB's third annual Refugee
Health Summit, which runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April
2, at the Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Center, 555
Ellicott St., Buffalo.
Thirteen graduate students in an interdisciplinary studio
offered through the UB School of Architecture and Planning spent
three weeks in India collaborating with partners there to help
develop a much-needed public sanitation plan.
The three-decades-old hyperbaric chamber housed in Sherman Annex
on UB’s South Campus is being upgraded, and the project will
be handled by a Western New York company whose three generations of
UB engineering graduates know the chamber inside and out.
States should take advantage of the flexibility they have to
adopt different legal purchasing ages, Lynn Kozlowski writes in the
current issue of Issues in Science and Technology.
A study of college students from four upstate New York
universities finds that young adults use e-cigarettes for affective
reasons, such as enjoyment, not for cognitive purposes like
quitting smoking.
Women who report having periodontal disease are at greater risk
for breast cancer, especially if they smoke or recently quit
smoking, according to University at Buffalo research published in
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Gary Giovino, PhD, is facilitating the development of the
Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health non-communicable disease
risk factor mobile phone survey.
Jean Wactawski-Wende, dean of the School of Public Health and
Health Professions, is the 88th UB faculty member to earn the rank
of SUNY Distinguished Professor.
