Patient Care UR Medical Center Board Honors Top Staff with 2016 Excellence Awards By Karin Gaffney Christensen Jan. 25, 2017 Ten individuals and four teams were honored for their dedication, service and outstanding patient care, with numerous examples cited of their extraordinary efforts.
Patient Care Mohawk Valley Man 'On the Ropes,' Gets New Heart By Leslie White Jan. 13, 2017 Herkimer County resident Jim Pugliese has seen young boxers take incredible blows and rally for a win in the ring. You could say he’s experienced the same situation. The 64-year-old Mohawk Valley man ...
Patient Care New Heart is Ultimate Gift for Volunteer Firefighter By Leslie White Dec. 20, 2016 Barbara Fudge has spent her life helping others and asking nothing in return. For nearly 20 years she has served as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician in her small Chemung ...
Research With a Tiny Video Camera, Physicians Improve Heart Valve Surgery By URochester Medicine Communications Dec. 20, 2016 A quicker recovery for patients is one of the major benefits of video-assisted minimally invasive aortic valve replacement surgery. Physicians use a small incision in the chest wall and a tiny video ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Heart Team Offers World’s Smallest Pacemaker By Leslie White Dec. 18, 2016 UR Medicine cardiologists are first in region to offer the world’s smallest pacemaker for people with irregular or slow heart rhythms.
Grant Domogala: A different kind of superhero By URochester Medicine Communications Dec. 2, 2016 Grant Domogala has overcome the odds time and time again since being diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia eight years ago. He has undergone three open-heart surgeries and ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Introduces New Device to Monitor Heart Failure Symptoms, Reduce Hospitalization By Leslie White Nov. 21, 2016 Cardiologists at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital have introduced a new implantable miniaturized, wireless monitoring sensor to manage heart failure and reduce the number of times people with ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Heart Transplant Team Celebrates 200 Hearts, 200 Second Chances By Leslie White Nov. 3, 2016 UR Medicine Heart and Vascular celebrated 200 second chances with an Oct. 22 reunion of heart transplant recipients, generous families of organ donors and staff from Strong Memorial Hospital and ...
Research Infant Nose, Lung Cells Possess Remarkably Similar RNA Patterns By URochester Medicine Communications Oct. 13, 2016 Cells from an infant’s nose are remarkably similar to those found in the lungs, a discovery that could lead to much more precise diagnosis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other infant lung ...
Research Director of National Institutes of Health Visits URMC By Emily Boynton Oct. 10, 2016 Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health met with students and junior researchers, toured labs and discussed exceptional opportunities in biomedical research.
