Patient Care Organ Donation Highlights Benefit for Harbor House June 15 By Leslie White May. 21, 2013 The importance of organ donation – or sharing the gift of life – will be highlighted during the Harbor House benefit dinner, “And the Beat Goes On…,” Saturday, June 15, at the Doubletree Inn in ...
Patient Care Heart Surgeons Perform 2 Transplants in 1 Day at URMC By Leslie White Apr. 16, 2013 Two people are recovering after a pair of heart transplants performed recently at the University of Rochester Medical Center. This was the first time the Program in Heart Failure and Transplantation ...
Patient Care Amerks To Host “Donate Life Night” On Friday By Leslie White Apr. 8, 2013 The Rochester Americans will host Donate Life Night on Friday, April 12, when the Amerks host the Oklahoma City Barons at 7:05 p.m. at The Blue Cross Arena. The Amerks are partnering with the Finger ...
Education The Power of Patient Stories: Learning Moments in Medicine By URMC Communications Apr. 2, 2013 Throughout the course of his 60-year career, Paul F. Griner, M.D., has learned a lot from his patients and their families. In his latest book, The Power of Patient Stories: Learning Moments in ...
Research Upstate New York’s 1st Total Artificial Heart Patient Leaves URMC Following Successful Heart Transplant By Leslie White Mar. 1, 2013 Hockey great Gaetano Orlando today leaves the University of Rochester Medical Center grateful to the team of cardiac experts who implanted a temporary total artificial heart in his chest and the ...
Patient Care URMC Teams Up with Student Musicians to Bring Patients 'The Healing Power of Music' By URMC Communications Jan. 21, 2013 Increasing numbers of studies show that music can have a therapeutic effect on patients in a healthcare setting, triggering powerful mental and physical changes that contribute to healing.
Patient Care URMC Introduces Less Invasive Heart Valve Replacement to Region By Leslie White Aug. 21, 2012 Doctors at the University of Rochester Medical Center Heart and Vascular Center now offer a less invasive heart-valve replacement for seriously ill and inoperable patients who have run out of other ...
Research Vitamin D + TB Vaccine: Allies in Fight Against Bladder Cancer? By Leslie Orr May. 21, 2012 The tuberculosis vaccine is often used as a treatment for bladder cancer, and adding vitamin D might improve the vaccine’s effectiveness, according to new research from the University of Rochester ...
Research Report Highlights Understudied, Unwelcome Side of Cancer Treatment By Leslie Orr Mar. 6, 2012 The number of cancer survivors in the United States has tripled since 1971 and yet gains in survival have come at the price of second malignancies and cardiovascular disease, according to a ...
Patient Care Region’s Only Inpatient Palliative Care Unit to Open at Strong By Lori Barrette Mar. 23, 2009 The University of Rochester Medical Center will celebrate the opening of the region’s only hospital-based palliative care unit, at Strong Memorial Hospital, with a ribbon cutting and dedication ...
