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A woman’s right to the best health care includes the right to the best reproductive health care, Allison Brashear says.

A woman’s right to the best health care includes the right to the best reproductive health care, Allison Brashear says.

Mark D. Hicar, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases, wrote a chapter titled “The Vaccine, Public Trust, and Doubt,” in the book “Playing With Reality: Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What is There.”

John J. Leddy, MD ’85, clinical professor of orthopaedics and one of the foremost world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of concussion, has received the 2022 Stockton Kimball Award for outstanding scientific achievement and service.

The scientist, who with a collaborator, invented and developed the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that is the basis for Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines, embodies the textbook definition of perseverance.

The Women’s Vascular Summit, hosted at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, continues to shine a light on disparities in vascular care between men and women and to promote research and education to initiate change.

The induction of Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences medical students, residents, fellows and faculty into UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) provided an opportunity to shine a light on countless acts of compassion.

Paxlovid, the COVID-19 medicine developed by Pfizer, is being evaluated in Western New York in children who are symptomatic with COVID-19 infection, and who are at risk of progression to severe disease.