Patient Care Breast Cancer Survivor Says She Found Stability in the “Village” at Wilmot By Ruth Harper-Rhode Jul. 28, 2023 Cheryl Rivers is used to being a rock to the people around her. She’s a hardworking mom who raised two children on her own. But after a stage 2 breast cancer diagnosis, she had trouble finding ...
Community New Mobile CPR Training Station Comes to Rochester, Finger Lakes By Leslie White Jul. 24, 2023 The odds of surviving sudden cardiac arrest can double when someone quickly receives cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR.) UR Medicine leaders, in collaboration with the American Heart Association, ...
People Postdoctoral Spotlight: Allison Murphy, PhD By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 24, 2023 Allison Murphy, PhD (’23), a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Farran Briggs, PhD, received a doctoral degree in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Her ...
People Faculty Q&A: Lars A. Ross, PhD By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 24, 2023 Lars A. Ross, PhD, is a research assistant professor of Imaging Sciences and Neuroscience at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He came to University of Rochester Medical Center in late ...
Research Protecting the vulnerable, informing the future By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 24, 2023 This is not another story about COVID. This is a story about how a group of scientists—including a neuroscientist, virologist, and nephrologist—and school leadership rolled up their sleeves, stepped ...
Research URMC researcher receives $8.3 million to study chronic pain and the brain By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 19, 2023 Understanding the role of chronic pain in the brain could transform treatment and care for a condition that inflicts more than 20 percent of US adults. An associate professor of Psychiatry at URMC ...
Patient Care Dialogue Magazine: Breast Cancer Services Thrive — As Do the Grad Student Researchers at Wilmot By Leslie Orr Jul. 19, 2023 In the latest edition of Dialogue (Vol 1, 2023), read stories about breast cancer care and research at Wilmot Cancer Institute, a community collaboration that is benefitting cancer research, and ...
Research Racial Disparities Discovered in Patients with Implantable Cardiac Devices By Strategic Communications Jul. 17, 2023 Black patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators have a higher burden of disease than white patients with the same device, according to new URMC cardiology research.
Research Trading Sickness for Health: Swapping Brain Cells Points to New Huntington's Therapies By Mark Michaud Jul. 17, 2023 New study answers important questions about the viability of treatments that seek to replace diseased and aged cells in the central nervous system with healthy ones.
Research Study Shows Surprisingly Low Use of COVID Antiviral Treatments in Nursing Homes By Mark Michaud Jul. 14, 2023 Only 18 percent of COVID cases in nursing homes received antiviral treatment, despite the known benefit of these drugs and the high risk of nursing home residents to adverse outcomes due to COVID.
