Category - Medicine

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Principal Investigator Christine DeLorenzo

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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...

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Grant Funds Pioneering Research to Create 3D Digital Pathology

A $1.14 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to research 3D computational pathology has been awarded to a team led by Fusheng Wang, associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and...

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New Anti-Cancer Therapies Could Result from MicroRNA Technology

New anti-cancer therapies could result from a technology that manipulates microRNAs (miRNAs) developed by Jingfang Ju.

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Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases Found on Long Island

Multiple agents capable of causing human disease are present in three species of ticks in Long Island, according to a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

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Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

A new study of 9/11 World Trade Center responders led by Stony Brook University reveals that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is strongly associated with onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The study...

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White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Medical Students

White lab coats – traditional attire for healthcare professionals – were donned proudly by the incoming class of 136 medical students at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University as they officially became...

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Can Machine Learning Awaken Coma Patients?

I. Memming Park, Stony Brook’s 2019 Discovery Prize winner, built his first artificial neural network when he was in middle school. That long-held interest in how the brain works influenced his award-winning research...

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Stony Brook University: Computer Engineering IV Ramakishnan, Associate Dean of Research (CEAS) and Professor of Computer Science and Petar Djuric, Chair, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering received a $3M NIH grant.

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Scientists Awarded $3.2 Million to Improve Delivery Room Decisions

Stony Brook scientists have received major NIH funding to investigate a pioneering approach to fetal monitoring that could improve outcomes in the delivery room. A multi-disciplinary team led by the College of...

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Gender-Based Medicine Can Enhance Treatment

Individual patients differ in their responses to treatment, and some of those differences are caused by the patient’s gender and hormones. That was the message delivered by Anat Biegon, PhD, Professor of Radiology and...

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Category - Medicine

Sharon Nachman, MD, Lists Top 10 Truths About Influenza

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

SMART Cluster, Reality Deck 2.0 Unveiled

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

Stony Brook Celebrates Completion of New Children’s Hospital

Tiana Reyes ’19 Explores Cancer Biology

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

Grant Funds Pioneering Research to Create 3D Digital Pathology

Multiple Agents of Tick-Borne Diseases Found on Long Island

Study Links 9/11 Responders to Cognitive Impairment

White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Medical Students

Can Machine Learning Awaken Coma Patients?

Scientists Awarded $3.2 Million to Improve Delivery Room Decisions

Gender-Based Medicine Can Enhance Treatment

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