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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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Engineering and Medicine: A Symbiosis That Promises Real-World Miracles

A newly released report on the economic impact of Stony Brook University sets forth compelling numbers reflecting the University’s role as a catalyst for economic development and progress. Yet numbers alone can only...

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Eastern Long Island Hospital Joins Stony Brook Medicine Healthcare System

Eastern Long Island Hospital (ELIH) officially joins the Stony Brook Medicine healthcare system as of July 1, combining the best in academic and community medicine to improve access to advanced medical care for...

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Research Suggests New Ways of Overcoming Resistance to Chemotherapy Drugs

Engineered cell evolution could provide a new pathway for halting cancer drug resistance, according to research led by Gábor Balázsi, associate professor in Stony Brook University’s Laufer Center and Department of...

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Opioid Poisoning Rates Higher and in a More Diverse Population, Study Shows

Opioid poisoning (OP) levels almost doubled from 2010 to 2016, according to a cohort study by Stony Brook University researchers of all payer hospital data on Long Island, combined with census data. Additionally, the...

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Higher Education Linked to Later Onset of Alzheimer’s

Researchers have uncovered a new addition to the long list of benefits from attending college: increased resistance to Alzheimer’s Disease. A new study by Stony Brook University scientists reveals that higher...

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Four Lives Changed by Stony Brook Kidney Transplants

With four lifesaving surgeries, Stony Brook Medicine’s Kidney Transplantation Services created a kidney transplant chain that now has bound together donors and recipients in shared gratitude and friendship. It started...

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SBU Alum Dr. Lauren Maloney Receives Multiple Honors in Emergency Medicine

Dr. Lauren Maloney, a chief resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine (EM), has received two national Emergency Medicine awards at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Conference held in Las...

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Measles Outbreak – Why it Happened and What to Do

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as of April 26, 2019, there have been 704 cases of measles reported in the United States. This is the greatest number of cases since the disease was thought to have...

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Vaping Teens May Not Know How Much Nicotine They Consume

Teens may be unaware of how much nicotine they are consuming when they vape, according to a study led by Rachel Boykan, MD, of the Department of Pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine. In an anonymous study...

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Dr. Joel Saltz Formally Invested as Cherith Foundation Chair in Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University

Endowed chair forges connection between medicine and engineering The fight against cancer and other deadly diseases is constantly becoming more and more advanced. To make these advances possible, new tools based on...

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Dental School Team Staffs Pop-up Clinic in Rural Tennessee

Outside of a temporary pop-up clinic at a Cookeville, Tennessee high school, patients had been sleeping in cars and waiting upwards of 24-hours for medical, dental, and vision care. This level of need is pervasive in...

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Stony Brook Medicine Brings Mobile Stroke Units to Long Island

Speedy advanced care at the scene, critical for stroke victims during the first hour, is now available after the launch of Stony Brook Medicine’s Mobile Stroke Units, the first of their kind on Long Island. The...

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Stony Brook University Hospital Named One of America’s 100 Best

Stony Brook University Hospital has been named one of “America’s 100 Best Hospitals” for 2019 by Healthgrades, the first organization in the country to rate hospital quality based on actual clinical outcomes. “At Stony...

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Breast Cancer Survivor Supports Further Advances With Gift

Ronald and Rosanne Rogé Breast Cancer Innovation Fund will support pilot projects at Stony Brook Cancer Center From the start of her treatment at Stony Brook Cancer Center, Rosanne Rogé knew that her journey from breast...

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PTSD in 9/11 Responders Linked to Dementia

There appears to be a link between chronic PTSD in 9/11 responders and dementia, according to a new pilot study led by researchers at Stony Brook University and the Stony Brook World Trade Center Health and Wellness...

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Professors’ Sonification Project Profiled in Wired Magazine

Stony Brook University Professors Lisa Muratori and Margaret Schedel collaborated on a project that was recently profiled in Wired — Our Ears Are Unlocking an Era of Aural Data. Muratori, an associate professor of...

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Study Probes Effect of Anesthesia on Breast Cancer Outcomes

A Stony Brook-led study will investigate where anesthesia management during breast cancer surgery affects long-term patient outcomes. Surgery offers the best hope to cure breast cancer when disease does not spread...

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Category - Medicine

Gender-Based Medicine Can Enhance Treatment

Engineering and Medicine: A Symbiosis That Promises Real-World Miracles

Research Suggests New Ways of Overcoming Resistance to Chemotherapy Drugs

Opioid Poisoning Rates Higher and in a More Diverse Population, Study Shows

Higher Education Linked to Later Onset of Alzheimer’s

Four Lives Changed by Stony Brook Kidney Transplants

SBU Alum Dr. Lauren Maloney Receives Multiple Honors in Emergency Medicine

Measles Outbreak – Why it Happened and What to Do

Vaping Teens May Not Know How Much Nicotine They Consume

Dr. Joel Saltz Formally Invested as Cherith Foundation Chair in Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University

Dental School Team Staffs Pop-up Clinic in Rural Tennessee

Stony Brook Medicine Brings Mobile Stroke Units to Long Island

Breast Cancer Survivor Supports Further Advances With Gift

Professors’ Sonification Project Profiled in Wired Magazine

Study Probes Effect of Anesthesia on Breast Cancer Outcomes

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