Patient Care Coping with Cancer: Webster Football Coach Practices What He Preaches By Leslie Orr Sep. 20, 2023 Scott Deuschle tapped strength he learned from sports, and community support, to tackle head and neck cancer.
Patient Care Should We Screen All Newborns for Neurodevelopmental Disorders? By Bethany Bushen Sep. 20, 2023 Expanding newborn screening to include identifying genes associated with an increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders would cause more harm than good, according to an article published in ...
Patient Care The Power of Putting One Foot in Front of the Other By Sydney Burrows Sep. 15, 2023 You or someone you know is probably pushing to reach 10,000 steps today, but is that really how much everyone should be walking every day? If you can’t walk fast or ride your bike far distances, is ...
Patient Care How to Prevent the Next Opioid Tragedy By Mark Liu Sep. 15, 2023 Paige Gibbons—a kind, ambitious, big-hearted lover of life—took a single pill of what she thought was the painkiller Percocet. Instead, it was 100 percent fentanyl, the opioid that is up to 50 times ...
Patient Care Here’s How Your Smartphone Can Save Your Life By Elizabeth Beach Sep. 12, 2023 Having a phone with you can always save your life—but the power of smartphones may go beyond just a call. Even when unconscious or unable to communicate, your smartphone can save your life with these ...
Patient Care Groundbreaking Celebrates Strong Memorial Hospital Expansion Project By Karin Christensen Sep. 8, 2023 Leaders from the University of Rochester and University of Rochester Medical Center, government officials, and community supporters gathered to celebrate the University’s largest capital project in ...
Education The Power of Prevention: URMC Looks to the Future to Prevent Suicide By Sally Parker Sep. 6, 2023 Earbuds, phone apps, text messages. This is the future of a new kind of suicide prevention, especially with hard-to-reach populations like teens. But technology and new approaches are also being used ...
Patient Care Do I Still Need to Worry about COVID? By Elizabeth Beach Aug. 30, 2023 Three and a half years after the COVID-19 pandemic began the U.S. is no longer in a state of emergency. This begs the question: Do I still need to be concerned about COVID-19?
Research Science Backs Mind-Body Tools Like Meditation and Music for Cancer-Related Anxiety By Leslie Orr Aug. 30, 2023 Science now supports several mind-body interventions - meditation, yoga, acupuncture, music therapy, for example- and a Wilmot faculty member was on the national panel.
Research Grant Boosts Drive to Transform Treatment Landscape for Rare Neurological Disorders By Mark Michaud Aug. 28, 2023 New funding will extend URMC's key role in national research network just a new gene therapies or neuromuscular and other disorders are emerging.