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  • 19 Faculty Members Join 6 Medical School Departments
    12/16/22

    Nineteen faculty members with clinical and research experience have joined the departments of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedics, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, Pediatrics, and Physiology and Biophysics.

  • Holiday Eating: Impact on the Digestive System
    12/14/22

    With the holiday season upon us, there is no doubt that many people have a change in their eating habits. Between family dinners, holiday parties and other cultural celebrations, great food – and more of it – seems to be the rule. While they definitely add to that holiday feeling, they may also add to some unintended health impacts, especially to the digestive system.

  • COVID-19 and the Holidays: Advice on How to Stay Safe
    12/14/22

    As the holiday season kicks into high gear, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences physicians and scientists have recommendations for how people can stay safe and healthy this holiday season amid some increasingly concerning signs.

  • 2022 Unsung Heroes
    12/12/22
    UBMD Emergency Medicine physicians were named 2022 Unsung Heroes by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Nominated by their colleagues, six UBMD Emergency Medicine physicians were named as 2022 New York ACEP Unsung Heroes for their dedicated patient care.
  • Brashear is elected to AAMC Council of Deans Administrative Board
    12/6/22

    Allison Brashear, MD, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been elected to the AAMC Council of Deans Administrative Board. 

  • Trials Offer New Approach to Treating Myasthenia Gravis
    12/6/22

    Gil I. Wolfe, MD, UB Distinguished Professor and the Irvin and Rosemary Smith Chair of the Department of Neurology, is involved in trials of FcRn (neonatal FC receptor) antagonists that offers a new approach to treating myasthenia gravis (MG).

  • Dramatic Weight Loss in Trial for Teens With Obesity
    11/30/22

    For teens who have struggled with obesity, it probably sounded too good to be true: a weekly injection that could help them control their eating and lead to weight loss. But the results of the clinical trial on the drug semaglutide, released earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the discipline’s major conference, Obesity Week, turned out to be better than anything the participants — or even the researchers — expected.

  • Local teens with obesity experienced dramatic weight loss when they participated in UB clinical trial
    11/29/22

    The results of a clinical trial on the drug semaglutide in teens, released in the New England Journal of Medicine, turned out to be better than anything the participants — or even the researchers — expected.

  • Pediatric Respiratory Infections, Flu Cases Surging
    11/28/22

    The request by children’s hospitals nationwide this month that the federal government declare a formal state of emergency given the surge in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and flu cases was no surprise to Oscar G. Gómez, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics.

  • SUNY Diversity in Medicine Award Goes to Jarvis, Milling, Perez
    11/28/22

    Three members of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty have been honored with SUNY Diversity in Medicine Mentoring Awards.