Tag: patient

Webster schools physical education teacher Dan Graf routinely encourages students to participate in the American Heart Association’s jump-rope and basketball fundraisers because it helps people who ...

Nervous excitement was building as Claude Brown prepared to meet the family of his heart donor. The Lockport-area man received the gift of life in 2010 at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital after ...

A Chili woman took the time to listen to her body and recognize that something was very wrong. Her fast action and care from a team of UR Medicine doctors may have saved her life.

Stephanie Ramos had endured sickle cell anemia for 25 years and a bone marrow transplant seemed to be the only option to free her from her excruciating pain. With the support of multiple physicians, ...

A Rochester woman who was born with sickle-cell anemia has been cured of the disease after a bone marrow transplant at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

A three-way story of Rochester-area organ donation and transplantation will unfold at the Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 1. A trio of families will represent the many organ donors and recipients ...

To say that Ronald Fontana is heartless may sound cruel, if it weren’t true. Doctors at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital replaced the heart of the 64-year-old Camillus man with a total ...

Few business lunches require tissues, but the Celebration of Miracles luncheon for UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital makes several necessary to catch the emotions that bubble up with the ...

When the Boston Marathon runners began their 26.2-mile trek Monday, Fred Knewstub joined in the excitement. Less than a week after receiving a new heart, marathon runner Knewstub joined his peers ...

Terry Zink’s skilled hands have turned logs into homes and furniture over the past four decades. But today he needs something that he can’t build – a new heart.