New Dental Career Fellowship Offered at EIOH By URochester Medicine Communications Mar. 8, 2016 Eastman Institute for Oral Health has established a new Dental Career Fellowship to provide advanced education to dentists interested in increasing their knowledge in the various disciplines of ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Professionals, Volunteer Recognized for Health Care Contributions By Barbara Ficarra Feb. 8, 2016 Seven professionals who work or volunteer at UR Medicine have been recognized with a 2016 Rochester Business Journal Healthcare Achievement Award for their efforts to advance health care quality and ...
Patient Care Quality of Hospital Stay Impacts Hip Fracture Patients’ Odds of Survival By Barbara Ficarra Jan. 23, 2016 How does hospital length of stay affect a patient’s odds of surviving a hip fracture? Investigators from the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Orthopaedics explore the topic in a ...
Patient Care State Awards $2.35 Million to Improve Access to Alzheimer’s Care Across Finger Lakes Region By Christine Roth Dec. 21, 2015 Over the next five years, the University of Rochester Medical Center's Office for Aging Research and Health Services (OARHS) will receive $2.35 million in funding from the New York State Department ...
Research Clinical Trial Results Show New Drug is Better for CLL Patients By Leslie Orr Dec. 6, 2015 Older adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia may now have an alternative to toxic chemotherapy as their first treatment, according to a national study co-authored by a UR Medicine Wilmot Cancer ...
Patient Care Construction Begins on the Ann and Carl Myers Cancer Center By Lydia Fernandez Oct. 28, 2015 UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute and Noyes Health, Jones Memorial Hospital and UR Medicine Radiation Oncology celebrated the start of construction on a regional cancer center based in Dansville, ...
Patient Care URMC Earns $2.5 Million HRSA Grant to Improve Geriatric Care By Lori Barrette Jul. 19, 2015 Efforts to improve health care for older adults in Rochester and the Finger Lakes region will be bolstered by a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health ...
Research Study: Nursing Home Care for Minorities Improves By Mark Michaud Jul. 7, 2015 A new study of nursing homes has found that, while disparities continue to exist, the quality of care in homes with higher concentrations of racial and ethnic minority residents has improved and that ...
Research Wilmot Researchers Define Unique Group of High-Risk Lymphoma Patients By Leslie Orr Jun. 29, 2015 The goal for many cancer patients is to reach the five-year, disease-free mark, but new research from UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute suggests that two years might be a more practical survival ...
Research Exercise as Chemo-brain Treatment Featured at Oncologists’ National Meeting By Leslie Orr Jun. 1, 2015 Cancer patients might feel their best if they simply maintain or only slightly increase their physical activity throughout chemotherapy instead of letting it decline, according to a University of ...
