An increasing number of highly educated women are opting for families, according to a national study. The research clearly shows fertility rising for older, highly educated women since the 1990s.
ANA’s Karen Daley encouraged Penn Nursing graduates to identify "little moments that can grow into great opportunities."
New research from the University at Buffalo suggests that cardiologists may have a new way to identify patients who are at the highest risk of sudden cardiac arrest, and the most likely to benefit from receiving an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD).
Dr. Karen Daley is president of the American Nurses Association and a champion of needlestick injury prevention.
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing historians are available to talk with media for stories during National Nurses Week.
It's "game on" at Penn Nursing where a year-long competition used gaming technologies to address healthcare concerns.
Penn Nursing expert Matt McHugh is available to talk with media about nurse staffing and the Affordable Care Act.
John J. Leddy, MD, associate professor and director of the University at Buffalo Concussion Clinic and Barry S. Willer, PhD, professor and the clinic’s research director consider the possibility that former NFL player, Junior Seau, found dead on May 2, may have been suffering from concussion-related depression.
The epidemic of Type 2 diabetes in children is harder to treat than researchers had thought.
ZisBoomBah, a Let's Move! award-winning game developer and leader in making food fun for families, is working with non-profit public health initiative The Kids Cook Monday to integrate weekly cooking prompts into their already popular gaming platform. ZisBoomBah has incorporated Kids Cook Monday quests into their “Challenger Calendar”, a free online score-based game that lets children and parents set health and nutrition goals.
Researchers at the University at Buffalo School of Management have proposed a better way of measuring the capabilities of IT service providers in a study recently published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
University at Buffalo volcanologist Michael Sheridan can discuss Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, which has entered a heightened phase of activity. Sheridan has been studying Popocatepetl for years.
Obese drivers are far less likely to wear seatbelts than are drivers of normal weight, a new University at Buffalo study has found, a behavior that puts them at greater risk of severe injury or death during motor vehicle crashes.
Media are invited to attend the Genetics Society of America’s “Model Organisms to Human Biology – Cancer Genetics Meeting,” June 17-20, 2012, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC. Speakers include investigators studying cancer relevant biology in model organisms and those studying human cancer. It also includes a mini-symposium on the ModENCODE project, with presentations by NHGRI and NIGMS directors.
The Genetics Society of America and the American Society of Human Genetics open the online application for the 2013 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, a $75,000 career development research award for early career female geneticists, funded by The Gruber Foundation.
Antibiotics, hormonal supplements and other drugs can harm waterways when poured down the drain. A national prescription drug take-back day on April 28, will help keep waterways including the Great Lakes clean, a UB expert says.
Researchers at McGill, Univ. of Minnesota call for combining best of both approaches.
Choosing the right hospital may make the difference between life and death for very low birth weight infants, according to research led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and released today in JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association.
In a study in PLoS Computational Biology, two Santa Fe Institute researchers trace the development of life-sustaining chemistry to the earliest forms of life on Earth.
Expert at medication safety available to help your audience dispose of unwanted or expired medication. She will tell you how long to hold on to your medicine, whether expiration dates mean anything, and how to avoid accidental poisonings.
A study has found that breast cancer survivors who were able to let go of old exercise goals and set new ones showed an improved well-being overall.
A bacterium historically associated with cat scratch fever and transmitted predominately by fleas may also play a role in human rheumatoid illnesses such as arthritis.
Healthcare leaders come together on how interprofessional education and practice among teams of nurses, doctors, and other health providers can optimize patient outcomes.
K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center is proud to announce the grand opening of K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital Specialty Care Center, a consolidated outpatient pediatric center serving as the new home of Meridian Pediatric Associates. The center provides pediatric specialty care services in a comfortable and friendly environment, and is an important first step of the hospital’s new pediatric expansion project.
The 6th Annual Women’s Philanthropic Fund (WPF) Spring Luncheon will feature keynote speaker Carol Ash, MD, Sleep Specialist, Meridian Health. Dr. Ash’s lecture titled Sleep: Getting to the Heart of the Matter will focus on how sleep and cardiac care go hand in hand. During the luncheon guests will have the opportunity to receive free cholesterol and blood pressure screenings and speak to experts in cardiac care, diet and nutrition, fitness and lifestyle, and much more.
This year the Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation is proud to announce the launch of Soiree at the Shore, a new and exciting event taking the calendar date of the successful Runway on the River.
In an age when even preschoolers have electronic toys and devices, many parents wonder how to get their children to be more physically active. Now, two studies published by University at Buffalo researchers provide some answers.
The Genetics Society of America’s exhibit booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival will let America vote on the next top model organism used in genetics research, including fruit flies, fungi, mice, and plants.
Loblolly pines with improved genetics not only grow faster and produce more wood but also scrub more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Sending jobs overseas may not be as damaging to the U.S. economy as commonly believed, according to a study by a University at Buffalo economist.
An innovative X-ray technique has given North Carolina State University researchers and their collaborators new insight into how organic polymers can be used in printable electronics such as transistors and solar cells.
In the wake of the deadly shooting this month at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., experts from the University at Buffalo offer perspectives from their research into ways to encourage students to immediately comply with “alert” messages sent during an on-campus emergency.
The world often breaks down into numbers and regular patterns that form predictable cycles. And the sooner children can inherently grasp these patterns, the more confident and comfortable they will be with the world of math. That’s the discerning approach of University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education professor Ming Ming Chiu, and it’s based on decades of teaching teachers and watching how students learn.
A North Carolina State University study shows that, for the first time since testing began several years ago, feral pigs in North Carolina have tested positive for Brucella suis, an important and harmful bacteria that can be transmitted to people.
Research by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, has found that at least part of the reason some people are kind and generous is because their genes nudge them toward it.
On Wednesday at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden will announce a major initiative on nursing and veterans’ health.
Research published in the Genetics Society of America’s journal GENETICS uses a new technique, surrogate organism genetics that “swapped” yeast genes with human genes sequenced from patients with homocystinuria to determine the gene variants likely to respond to vitamin B6 treatment.
Penn Nursing researchers learn how cancer patients decide to participate in clinical trials.
McGill team develops new technology that can accurately measure protein biomarkers.
The Fifteenth Annual Sweetheart Ball was held on Saturday, February 25, at Eagle Oaks Golf and Country Club in Farmingdale and raised a record breaking $280,000.
Last spring, Riverview Medical Center announced the creation of a nearly 22,000 square foot center for surgical excellence to be constructed in the Blaisdell Pavilion, on the Medical Center campus, supported by the Riverview Medical Center Capital Campaign, Life. Changing. Riverview is pleased to announce that the first phase of this expansion, the new Surgical Day Stay, is completed and operational starting today.
At Bayshore Community Hospital, making patients and guests feel at home while they’re away from home for a hospital stay is top of mind. While clinical care remains the Hospital’s top priority, it is now enhancing the total hospital experience of patients with a new service called Concierge Care. Concierge Care was formed to consistently address personal or “non-clinical needs,” making patients and their guests as comfortable as possible.
Life-saving inhalers are permitted by law, but often banned from the playing field. Dr. Maureen George of Penn Nursing explains.
The new documentary “Bully” starts a valuable conversation about bullying, but illustrates how many schools lack adequate training to cope with this all-too-common problem, according to the director of the University at Buffalo’s Jean M. Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence.
Research from North Carolina State University shows that honey bees “self-medicate” when their colony is infected with a harmful fungus, bringing in increased amounts of antifungal plant resins to ward off the pathogen.
A paper by neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College suggests that ingestion of components of afterbirth or placenta -- placentophagia -- may offer benefits to human mothers and perhaps to non-mothers and males.
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutional issues in the Affordable Care Act, authors from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing examine the issues through the lens of relevant court decisions.
To curb employees’ on-the-job substance use and intoxication, bosses need to do more than just be around their employees all day, according to a new study from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).
The College of American Pathologists partners with CollabRx to provide decision support tools to patients.
In a study of 40 cases, a computer correctly identifies liars more than 80 percent of the time, a better rate than humans with the naked eye typically achieve in lie-detection exercises.
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