Tag: neuro

Telehealth is growing rapidly and has the potential to transform the delivery of health care for millions of persons. That is the conclusion of a review article appearing today in the New England ...

People with Huntington disease (HD) experienced fewer involuntary movements, also known as chorea, while taking deutetrabenazine (SD-809) compared to placebo, according to a paper published today in ...

A new program launched by neurologists at UR Medicine will expand access to care and serve as a national model for the management of Parkinson’s disease and other chronic illnesses. The Parkinson’s ...

UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital is first in the Rochester area to offer people a new minimally invasive therapy for atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder, to prevent strokes.

Researchers have successfully reduced the symptoms and slowed the progression of Huntington’s disease in mice using healthy human brain cells. The findings, which were published today in the journal ...

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has once again honored UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital with its highest awards for heart failure, stroke and resuscitation care. ...

Student-athletes who get a concussion often return to school within a week but still have significant problems in the classroom and cannot perform at a normal academic level, according to a new ...

Born at 34 weeks, Ryan’s parents, Melanie and Andy, were told their son would have a better chance of survival in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Ryan developed necrotizing enterocolitis ...

A new study shows that repeated radiation therapy used to target tumors in the brain may not be as safe to healthy brain cells as previously assumed. The findings, which appear in the International ...

From the day he was born, Gary Burks has been coping with the pain and complications that come with sickle cell disease.