Tag: heart

Scientists are making strides against cerebral malaria, a fatal form of malaria in children that can ravage the brain and is extremely difficult to treat. New research points to platelets – known for ...

The Rochester Academy of Medicine has awarded Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D., CEO of the University of Rochester Medical Center, its highest honor, the 2010 Albert David Kaiser Medal. He received the ...

Electrophysiology services at the University of Rochester Medical Center have expanded with the introduction of a third EP laboratory featuring cutting-edge technology for the treatment of cardiac ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center is creating an atrial fibrillation center to offer patients access to experts with the most extensive experience in upstate New York and clinical trials ...

For the fourth consecutive year, Strong Memorial’s cardiac-vascular intensive care unit (CVICU/7-1600) will accept the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, and for the first time, the ...

Heart failure patients in upstate New York and across the country have a new option that has demonstrated significant survival rate results. The FDA in January approved HeartMate II, the next ...

Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center who are exploring the health effects of environmental agents have received $8 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health to ...

A new therapy that reduces the risk of mortality and heart failure in patients with mild cardiac disease received a thumb’s up this week from an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Obesity has long been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and heart failure. But, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that ...

More than a dozen Rochester physicians, students and scientists are heading to Atlanta this weekend for the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. It’s one of the premier meetings of ...