Tag: surgery

North Tonawanda resident Rich Shepler, 30, is recovering at home after a life-saving heart transplant at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The event is set for Oct. 5 at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center. It will have a Bollywood theme and feature keynote speaker Priyanka Chopra, one of the most recognized and lauded talents in ...

Doctors at the University of Rochester Medical Center Heart and Vascular Center now offer a less invasive heart-valve replacement for seriously ill and inoperable patients who have run out of other ...

Retired Elmira school bus driver Wayne Hart recently returned to his Horseheads home after receiving a life-saving heart transplant at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) is one of just 13 U.S. surgery sites chosen to offer the LINX™ Reflux Management System, a new implantable magnetic “ring” that promises relief to ...

Grace Esposito was given a one in five chance of surviving but this "amazing" child has beaten all the odds, with help from expert care at Golisano Children's Hospital. She is one of five children ...

P. Christopher Cook, M.D., F.R.C.S., a new pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center, brings with him to Rochester highly specialized ...

Ginger Zimmerman will share her inspiring story of life after a heart transplant at the Harbor House benefit dinner, “And the Beat Goes On…,” Saturday, June 9, at the Doubletree Hotel in Henrietta. ...

Mike Hayshem gently places his hand over his heart and soon begins to smile. “I can feel it beating,” he says of the transplanted organ while recovering at the University of Rochester Medical ...

A German boy who was considered blind and untreatable when he was born is today enrolled in kindergarten and enjoys playing video games, thanks to sight-saving surgery by a University of Rochester ...