Patient Care Report Recommends More Treatment, Research, for Gulf War Vets By Leslie Orr Feb. 14, 2016 The cause of Gulf War illness is still a mystery but focusing on treatments and interventions might help the veterans of Operation Desert Storm as well as the troops of the future, according to an ...
Research URMC Partners with Private Company to Create Tissue Bank for Cancer Research By Leslie Orr Feb. 3, 2016 The University of Rochester Medical Center announced it’s collaborating with Indivumed, a Germany-based company, to establish a bank of human tissues and tumor samples that are expertly preserved and ...
Research Scientists Discover Stem Cells Capable of Repairing Skull, Face Bones By Leslie Orr Feb. 1, 2016 A team of Rochester scientists has, for the first time, identified and isolated a stem cell population capable of skull formation and craniofacial bone repair in mice—achieving an important step ...
Education SMD Continuing Medical Education Program Earns National Accreditation By Christine Roth Jan. 10, 2016 The School of Medicine and Dentistry has earned six-year accreditation with commendation from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). The distinction recognizes the school ...
Research What Frogs Can Teach Us About Tumors By URochester Medicine Communications Jan. 4, 2016 Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry have developed a new model of cancer in frogs to study how tumors grow, spread, and manipulate immune cells. These ...
Education By Asking, “What’s the Worst Part of This?” Physicians Can Ease Suffering By Leslie Orr Dec. 22, 2015 When patients suffer, doctors tend to want to fix things and if they cannot many doctors then withdraw emotionally. But by turning toward the suffering, physicians can better help their patients and ...
Research Aiming at Cellular ‘Neighborhood’ around Blood Cancer Improves Outcomes By URochester Medicine Communications Dec. 18, 2015 Wilmot Cancer Institute investigators have shown direct evidence of how changes in the blood-cell manufacturing environment can cause cells to malfunction and turn cancerous. The research, reported ...
Research Is Chemical Exposure in Mothers, Babies, Linked to Poor Vaccine Response? By Leslie Orr Dec. 9, 2015 Early life exposures to toxic chemicals such as PCBs and DDT dampen an infant’s response to the tuberculosis vaccine, according to a new study from the University of Rochester Environmental Health ...
Research UR Medicine Tapped for Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation’s Care Center Network By Leslie White Dec. 7, 2015 UR Medicine was selected to be a part of the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Care Center Network to expand care and research into pulmonary fibrosis, also called lung scarring. UR Medicine Pulmonary ...
Research Clinical Trial Results Show New Drug is Better for CLL Patients By Leslie Orr Dec. 6, 2015 Older adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia may now have an alternative to toxic chemotherapy as their first treatment, according to a national study co-authored by a UR Medicine Wilmot Cancer ...
