Tag: health care professionals

A University of Rochester Medical Center pilot project demonstrating that telepsychiatry reduces emergency department visits and re-hospitalizations for nursing home residents has earned long-term ...

Sheniece L. Griffin, DNP, RN, CNL, is URMC’s newly appointed Nursing Director for Equity and Inclusion in Nursing Practice. The role may be brand-new to her—and to the system—but she has valuable ...

Tell your health care providers the date of your vaccine and what arm received the shot - especially if you have an imaging scan coming up.

Wilmot patients benefit from major improvements in treating gastrointestinal tumors - the "Advance of the Year" in oncology.

New research suggests that targeted leukemia treatment may be able to correct the faulty genes that fuel cancer at its root.

Over a year into the COVID pandemic, we are in a race between vaccines and variants. The longer the novel coronavirus circulates, the higher the likelihood it will pick up a mutation that helps it ...

Researchers want to know why Black and white cancer patients may respond differently to game-changing immunotherapy.

During a global pandemic that has underscored the importance of nursing, the profession took a moment to celebrate one of its living legends, Loretta Ford, who turned 100 in December.

It’s too soon to know with certainty, but experience with other infectious diseases leads experts to believe that your immune system will probably be able to detect and respond to the coronavirus for ...

You may have heard that the J&J Covid vaccine isn’t as effective as others, but what "effective" means is largely misunderstood. Two experts explain what you need to know about the new vaccine.