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Low-Carb Dieters Eat More Vegetables

Low-carb dieters are replacing starches and sugars with vegetables, not with high-fat foods, journal article says.

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Downstate Studies New Way to Fight Lupus

Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center have received a grant from the Lupus Research Institute to study whether a new means of manipulating the immune system is an effective treatment against lupus.

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Scientists Find Hormone Activity Explains Adolescent Mood Swings

Research demonstrates that a calming hormone normally released in response to stress reverses its effect at puberty, when it paradoxically increases anxiety.

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4th International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering,...

More than a hundred bioengineers, research scientists, physicians, lawyers, ethicists, philosophers, and students will convene in Brooklyn, New York for the Fourth International Conference on Ethical...

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Researcher Issued Patent for Virtual Telemicroscope

Scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and Peking University in Beijing were awarded a United States patent for their virtual telemicroscope. This patented software permits off-site...

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Study Suggests Ethnicity May Affect Sleep Patterns in Women

A new study conducted by researchers from the Brooklyn Center for Health Disparities Research at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and from Long Island University, examined whether differences in culture...

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Heart Surgery Chief Dr. Wilson Ko to be Given Ellis Island Award

Wilson Ko, MD, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, will be presented the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor, during a ceremony on the island Saturday,...

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Immediate Action Needed to Prevent "~Industrial Manslaughter,' Says Expert

Dr. Jeanne Stellman tells Presidential Panel that many chemicals remain unregulated.

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SUNY Downstate To Institute Ultrasound Training for All Medical Students

In what will be a marathon training session — the first of its type — the entire fourth-year class of SUNY Downstate Medical Center's College of Medicine will be taught the use of portable ultrasound...

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From Da Vinci to Downstate: Brooklyn Medical Students to Learn Anatomy...

SUNY Downstate Medical Center is offering a course by which students learn anatomy through sculpting.

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Drug Combination May Treat Traumatic Brain Injury

Currently, there are no drugs available to treat TBI: a variety of single drugs have failed clinical trials, suggesting a possible role for drug combinations. Testing this hypothesis in an animal...

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Dr. Todd Sacktor Receives MERIT Award from National Institute of Mental Health

Todd C. Sacktor, MD, distinguished professor of physiology and pharmacology and of neurology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has received a MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) award from the...

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Excessive Worrying May Have Co-Evolved with Intelligence

Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait, according to a recent study by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other institutions.

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Asthma Linked to Congested Highways

Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, found that living near a heavily congested highway correlates with a higher presence of asthma.

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Award to Develop Mobile Phone Apps for Stroke Patients

SUNY Downstate has received an award to develop mobile phone applications for stroke patients and their caregivers from the federally funded Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

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Major Textbook on Research Methodology Published

A new book is designed to help healthcare professionals successfully conduct scientific research and also help them to better evaluate research published in the medical media.

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September Is Child Obesity Awareness Month. Eugene Dinkevich, MD, Is...

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SUNY Downstate Chosen for Urban Health Initiative

SUNY Downstate Medical Center has been selected to participate in Urban Universities for HEALTH, a national initiative to improve the health of urban communities by developing their health workforce.

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Dr. Michael Lucchesi, Chair of Emergency Medicine at Suny Downstate,...

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Downstate to Receive SUNY Award to Advance Innovative Breast Cancer Test

SUNY Downstate Medical Center will receive up to $50,000 from the statewide SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) to advance a blood test to determine breast cancer prognosis.

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