UB Breaking Research
UB BREAKING RESEARCH
OVERTURNING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: A study led by a UB medical researcher has dramatically contradicted conventional wisdom that coronary revascularization with stenting or balloon angioplasty is the best initial treatment for stable heart disease. Read more on this study.
BREAST CANCER LINK: Women who had their tonsils removed in childhood may be at increased risk of developing pre-menopausal breast cancer, according to a study by epidemiologists in the School of Public Health and Health Professions.
Read about this new development.
PNEUMONIA RISK: Researchers in the School of Dental Medicine have linked bacteria in patients’ dental plaque with triggering pneumonia in some patients in hospital intensive care units. Read more on this pneumonia trigger.
