Undergraduate applications to the School of Public Health and Health Professions have jumped by 70% over last year.

Open to anyone who believes they have long COVID, the registry provides a forum to report symptoms, learn about treatments and opt into research studies.

The findings are particularly relevant for postmenopausal women, since the prevalence of high blood pressure is higher among older women than older men.

This increase in loneliness and loss of social connections — which the research team called a “silent epidemic” — has resulted in worsening mental health.

Overlap of age at diagnosis of breast cancer and age with high consumption of caffeine, and inconsistent findings from previous studies, motivated researchers to study whether caffeine could affect breast cancer risk.

Getting five or fewer hours of sleep a night is associated with low bone mineral density (BMD) and higher odds of osteoporosis, according to the findings of the largest study of sleep and BMD to date among U.S. postmenopausal women.

With this extension through 2027, the WHI will have been continuously funded for 35 years.

Women who did the highest amount of physical activity had an 18% lower risk of hip fracture and 6% lower risk of total fracture.

The UB study found that women who had loss all their teeth had 20 percent higher risk of developing hypertension than women who still had natural teeth.

A new study has identified several key factors in postmenopausal women that are associated with height loss, a common occurrence in this age group that is known to increase the risk for death and disease.

Postmenopausal women who have a history of gum disease have a higher risk of cancer, according to a UB-led study of more than 65,000 women that's also the first to report an association between the disease and gallbladder cancer risk.