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Sharon Nachman, MD, Lists Top 10 Truths About Influenza

With flu season well underway, knowledge is one of the keys to illness prevention.

January 14, 2020

4 min read

Faculty/Staff Medicine School of Medicine

Mortality Rates Cut by Early Intervention of Hyperkalemia

Dr. Adam Singer and colleagues report in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine that quickly correcting high potassium levels — a condition known as hyperkalemia — in emergency department patients cut mortality in...

January 9, 2020

1 min read

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School of Dental Medicine Opens Center for Implant and Digital Technology

With the cutting of a ceremonial ribbon, Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine officially opened the doors to its Center for Implant and Digital Technology (CIDT). The Center will serve as state-of-the-art space for...

December 23, 2019

3 min read

Medicine News Highlights

Stony Brook Children’s Enters New Era on Move Day

As new facilities at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital opened November 17, hospital staff cheerfully met the challenge of transferring young patients to brand new rooms. Stony Brook Children’s delivers specialized...

December 3, 2019

1 min read

Diversity Featured Story Medicine

INDUCER Program Works to Heal Racial Disparities in Healthcare

It’s a fact: The incidence of cancer among African-Americans is higher than that of any other racial or ethnic group in the U.S. One reason, experts say, is that a history of mistrust and disenfranchisement discourages...

November 30, 2019

5 min read

Medicine Research

Evolution Can Repair Genes to Regain Lost Function

A new study by Stony Brook University researchers, published online in PNAS, shows that evolution can exploit positive feedback (PF) within cells to restore gene function. Such repair by evolution may provide a basis...

November 25, 2019

2 min read

Academics Faculty/Staff Leadership Medicine On Campus School of Health Techology & Management

Stacy Jaffee Gropack Named Dean, School of Health Technology and Management

With more than 30 years of experience in Health Professions Education, Stacy Jaffee Gropack, PhD, has been named Dean of the Stony Brook University School of Health Technology and Management (SHTM). She previously held...

November 13, 2019

2 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Main University Medicine Medicine and Research News Highlights Research STEM Stony Brook Matters University

SMART Cluster, Reality Deck 2.0 Unveiled

Stony Brook University celebrated the opening of its astonishing new SMART Cluster, a dual use GPU Cluster for both machine learning and visualization, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on campus November 4. The high-tech...

November 5, 2019

2 min read

Community Events Long Island Medicine Wellness

Walk with a Doc & Future Doc, November 17

Join this doctor-led event for a fun and safe place to walk, learn about health and meet new friends. The Stony Brook Family & Preventive Medicine Practice and the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group present “Walk...

November 5, 2019

1 min read

Academics Faculty/Staff Leadership Medicine School of Medicine

Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky Elected to New York Genome Center Board of Directors

Renowned hematologist Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, Dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine and Senior Vice President of Health Sciences at Stony Brook University, has been elected to the Board of Directors of...

November 1, 2019

1 min read

Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine Medicine and Research Medicine Today News Highlights Stony Brook Matters University

Stony Brook Celebrates Completion of New Children’s Hospital

Stony Brook University commemorated the latest advancement in medical care for children October 17, celebrating the completion of the new Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. “Today we celebrate Stony Brook Children’s...

October 17, 2019

5 min read

Medicine Wellness

Sex-Specific Scoring Could Alter Mild Cognitive Impairment Diagnoses

Accounting for gender on memory tests may change the diagnosis for 20 percent of those currently diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with possibly more women and fewer men being diagnosed with MCI, according...

October 10, 2019

3 min read

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Tiana Reyes ’19 Explores Cancer Biology

Tiana Reyes ’19 has a very personal reason for doing undergraduate research in cancer biology and racial health disparities: her mother died from breast cancer when she was 11. “That fueled my interest...

October 9, 2019

2 min read

Events Medicine On Campus Wellness

10th Annual Meeting of the Minds Symposium: Brain Injury and Coma

Stony Brook University’s Neurosciences Institute presents the 10th Annual Meeting of the Minds Symposium: Brain Injury and Coma on Friday, October 25, from 8 am to 12:30 pm in the Medical and Translational Research...

September 26, 2019

2 min read

Events Medicine On Campus Wellness

Mental Health Comedy Tour, October 17

On Thursday evening, October 17, Stony Brook University is sponsoring a free Mental Health Comedy Tour that features standup comedy from professional comedians who suffer from serious mental health issues. The Headliner...

September 25, 2019

1 min read

Academics Faculty/Staff Medicine School of Dental Medicine

SBU Urges Congress to Fund More Oral Health Training Programs and Increase Funding for Dental Research

On Wednesday, September 18, Dr. Dan Colosi, Associate Professor in the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine and Director of the Division of Diagnostic Imaging, visited Capitol Hill in conjunction with the American...

September 25, 2019

2 min read

Principal Investigator Christine DeLorenzo

Medicine Medicine Alumni News Medicine and Research Medicine Today News Highlights Research Stony Brook Matters

Researchers Receive $4.3 Million Grant to Develop Next-Generation Alzheimer’s Treatments

Stony Brook’s Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry are teaming up with the NIH on a $4.3 million research grant to develop treatments that can potentially arrest and reverse memory loss in...

September 24, 2019

3 min read

Events Long Island Medicine News Highlights Wellness

Join Bestselling Author Marci Shimoff for Women’s Health Day

Learn from Stony Brook Medicine experts as they share the latest information, research and thinking about topics that concern women most at Women’s Health Day on Saturday, September 28, from 8:30 am to 2 pm at Advanced...

September 23, 2019

1 min read

Category: Medicine

Mortality Rates Cut by Early Intervention of Hyperkalemia

School of Dental Medicine Opens Center for Implant and Digital Technology

Stony Brook Children’s Enters New Era on Move Day

INDUCER Program Works to Heal Racial Disparities in Healthcare

Evolution Can Repair Genes to Regain Lost Function

Stacy Jaffee Gropack Named Dean, School of Health Technology and Management

SMART Cluster, Reality Deck 2.0 Unveiled

Walk with a Doc & Future Doc, November 17

Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky Elected to New York Genome Center Board of Directors

Stony Brook Celebrates Completion of New Children’s Hospital

Sex-Specific Scoring Could Alter Mild Cognitive Impairment Diagnoses

Tiana Reyes ’19 Explores Cancer Biology

10th Annual Meeting of the Minds Symposium: Brain Injury and Coma

Mental Health Comedy Tour, October 17

SBU Urges Congress to Fund More Oral Health Training Programs and Increase Funding for Dental Research

Researchers Receive $4.3 Million Grant to Develop Next-Generation Alzheimer’s Treatments

Join Bestselling Author Marci Shimoff for Women’s Health Day

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