Patient Care Health Equity Spotlight: Addressing Disparities in Diabetic Foot Infections By Jherell Drain Jan. 22, 2024 Members of UR Medicine’s Vascular Surgery and Infectious Diseases divisions are using our health system’s race and ethnicity data to explore how treatment and clinical outcomes differ among patients ...
Patient Care Face to Face: Meet 'Upstate Girl' Jamie Flerlage, MD By Leslie Orr Jan. 19, 2024 Get to know Jamie Flerlage, MD, MS. She recently joined URMC as the new Chief and Academic Director of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Golisano Children's Hospital and Assistant Director of Clinical ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Performs Record Number of Heart Transplants in 2023 By Leslie White Jan. 19, 2024 Strong Memorial Hospital provided a record 40 life-saving heart transplants last year. Those second chances, made possible by organ donors, are priceless for our patients and their families.
People URMC Taps Edith Williams to Lead the Center for Community Health & Prevention By Susanne Pallo Jan. 16, 2024 Edith Williams, MS, PhD, who joined the Medical Center as the founding director of the Office of Health Equity Research in 2022, is now serving as director of the Center for Community Health & ...
Research Sharp Pain in Your Feet? Researchers Test Promising Therapy for Cancer Patients’ Neuropathy By Leslie Orr Jan. 12, 2024 TENS devices, which block pain and are readily available, may be useful for cancer patients, a new study shows.
Patient Care Mendon Family Gifts Wilmot $50K in Honor of Daughter’s Extraordinary Care By Leslie Orr Jan. 11, 2024 Sarah Moore’s life over the past year has been mind-boggling and, at the same time, miraculous, after she spent more than 200 days in the hospital at Wilmot Cancer Institute.
Research NIH Awards $7.5M for UR Center to Help Shape Future of Drug Development By Leslie Orr Jan. 9, 2024 A large NIH grant funds UR team to develop drugs without animal testing.
Community It's Not You, It's Your Goal Setting By Sydney Burrows Jan. 8, 2024 When the calendar flips from December to January, it’s common to pick a handful of New Year’s resolutions. While many set goals, only 9% of people manage to keep their resolutions throughout the ...
Patient Care Is BMI Accurate? New Evidence Says No By Lori Barrette Jan. 8, 2024 For years, BMI—body mass index—has been the go-to tool for plotting our weight into categories. If your BMI number is 25 or higher, you fall into the overweight or obese category. So, does that mean ...
Research Researchers find possible neuromarker for ‘juvenile-onset’ Batten disease By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 8, 2024 New research suggests an easy-to-measure brain process may be a target or biomarker in measuring treatment outcomes in clinical trials for patients with Batten disease.