Tag: heart

At 13, Ryan Sheehan, a teen from Chili, had already had three open-heart surgeries. Golisano Children’s Hospital’s cardiac surgeon was willing to perform a fourth surgery when others wouldn’t, which ...

A 15-year-old Byron teen, Katelin Ivison, learned that she had acute myeloid leukemia on her 14th birthday last January. After intensive treatment and a bone marrow transplant, Kaytee is cancer-free. ...

Sudden cardiac death is always a shocking, tragic event, especially when it occurs at a young age. But, for the first time, scientists are unraveling how genetic defects can help predict the risk of ...

Arthur J. Moss, M.D., professor of Cardiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center and world-renowned expert on electrical disturbances of the heart, received the Heart Rhythm Society’s ...

Walking and running are good for your heart. On Saturday, April 30, participating in Karen’s Walk and 5k Run will be good for local heart failure research. The 11 a.m. event includes a 5K run or ...

Presenting a total of 15 studies at this week’s American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Sessions, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center continue to mine valuable ...

A device designed to treat people with resistant hypertension helped lower blood pressure by 33 points, a substantial drop that would otherwise require patients to take an additional three or four ...

Serendipity may have saved 32-year-old Jamie Arliss’ life. A rare tumor discovered in her heart had stumped cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center. They wanted to remove the ...

Individuals and teams are invited to participate in the 10th annual Friends of Strong Rochester River Run/Walk 5K, Sunday, April 10, at the Riverbend Shelter at Genesee Valley Park. The race will ...

The current clinical trial process in the U.S. is on shaky ground. In this era of personalized medicine, patient populations for new therapies grow smaller and smaller. Coupled with skyrocketing ...