Research AHA Grants Will Accelerate Search for New Stroke Therapies By Mark Michaud Jun. 27, 2018 A series of awards from the American Heart Association (AHA) to a team of researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) will focus on the development of new treatments to thwart ...
Class of 2018 Represents 27 Countries By URochester Medicine Communications Jun. 26, 2018 More than 70 Eastman Institute for Oral Health students and residents received their certificates for completing their advanced, specialty training in various programs.
Patient Care A Cornerstone and Catalyst for Hope By Lydia Fernandez Jun. 25, 2018 Even on the gloomiest days, light streams through the wall of windows in the lobby of the Wilmot Cancer Center. It fills the patient rooms on the building’s upper floors, and it brightens areas on ...
Research Childhood Obesity Study Makes Weight Loss a Family Matter By URochester Medicine Communications Jun. 22, 2018 Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) are joining those from three other organizations on one of the largest family-based childhood obesity studies ever conducted in the ...
Education Students Care For City's Most Vulnerable By URochester Medicine Communications Jun. 20, 2018 More than 60 medical students a year take part in volunteer programs that bring health care services to those who need it most: Rochester’s homeless community, and others living in poverty or lacking ...
Patient Care Liver Cancer Research Might Pave Way for Prevention By Leslie Orr Jun. 13, 2018 Based on new data from the Wilmot Cancer Institute, researchers now understand more about the gene mutations and risk factors that work together to jump-start the second most common type of liver ...
Patient Care URMC Physician Earns National Palliative Care Award By Lori Barrette Jun. 13, 2018 Palliative care physician Erin Denney-Koelsch, M.D., who formed an interdisciplinary program to support expectant parents of babies not likely to survive, was honored with the 2018 Hastings Center ...
Research Neuroscience Grad Student Awarded NIH Diversity Fellowship By URochester Medicine Communications Jun. 12, 2018 Monique S. Mendes is the first University of Rochester Medical Center graduate student to receive a prestigious diversity award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders in Stroke.
Patient Care UR Medicine Recognized for Excellence in Stroke Care By Mark Michaud Jun. 11, 2018 The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) has once again honored the UR Medicine Strong Memorial and Highland Hospitals for having achieved the highest standard of care for ...
Patient Care ‘Bionic Eye’ Helps Wyoming County Man See His Bride Again By Leslie White Jun. 11, 2018 “Oh my goodness – do you see that?” It was the wave of a hand, but William Heidt was in tears. For the first time in more than 15 years, the Wyoming County man saw something, thanks to a “bionic eye” ...
