Tag: transplant

Lieutenant Dan Schermerhorn Jr. works the day shift. Peace Officer Paul Wlosinski works nights. The two University of Rochester Department of Public Safety colleagues are forever connected by an act ...

A Wilmot Cancer Institute study uncovers how a single gene could be at fault in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), one of the deadliest cancers. The breakthrough gives researchers renewed hope that a ...

Rochester’s home-away-from-home for seriously ill patients will get a boost from the community during the “And the Beat Goes On…” benefit dinner for Harbor House of Rochester.

UR Medicine has opened an ambulatory clinic for liver transplant at St. Joseph’s Health, providing care closer to home for the hundreds of UR Medicine liver transplant patients who live in Central ...

Jamestown sportswriter Cody Crandall felt like he hit a grand slam when UR Medicine transplant cardiologists shared news that a matching heart was available for him. The 24-year-old former baseball ...

As Mother’s Day nears, Roberta Watkins says only a hug from her 9-year-old compares with the extraordinary gift she received two weeks ago at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital. A generous donor ...

Donors, transplant recipients, and families gather to salute Donate Life Month and raise funds in support of patients, awaiting or recovering from organ transplant surgery, at the Rochester River ...

For the past decade, children in Upstate New York who needed a pediatric liver transplant didn’t have any local options. With no nearby providers, this meant long car trips or plane rides to New York ...

Jamestown sportswriter Cody Crandall hopes sharing a personal story can change a life, rather than one he writes. The 24-year-old former baseball standout at Jamestown High School has a failing heart ...

Carrie Thornley Fisher was in heart failure near the end of her second pregnancy. After giving birth to a healthy boy, the 32-year-old spent nearly two months on life-saving mechanical support until ...