Patient Care Wilmot Cancer Center Awarded Prestigious Accreditation with Commendation from American College of Surgeons By Leslie White Jul. 14, 2009 The James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center has received accreditation with commendation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. The ...
Research Study in Nature: MicroRNAs Hold Promise For Treating Diseases in Blood Vessels By URMC Communications Jul. 5, 2009 A newly discovered mechanism controls whether muscle cells in blood vessels hasten the development of both atherosclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease, according to an article published online today in ...
Research Computer Simulation Captures Immune Response to Flu By URMC Communications May. 17, 2009 Researchers have successfully tested for the first time a computer simulation of major portions of the body’s immune reaction to influenza type A, with implications for treatment design and ...
Research Study Reveals Current Multi-Component Vaccines May Need Reworking By URMC Communications May. 6, 2009 Current strategies for designing vaccines against HIV and cancers, for instance, may enable some components in multi-component vaccines to cancel the effect of others on the immune system, ...
Research Poor Sleep Quality Leads to Poorer Prognosis after Stroke By Leslie Orr Apr. 27, 2009 Stroke victims tend to do worse if they also have diagnosed or undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea prior to having the stroke, according to a study presented April 28, 2009, at the American Academy ...
Research Abnormal EKG Can Predict Death in Stroke Patients By Leslie Orr Mar. 19, 2009 People who suffer an ischemic stroke and also have an abnormality in the heart’s electrical cycle are at a higher risk of death within 90 days than people who do not have abnormal electrical activity ...
Research Wilmot Cancer Stem Cell Scientist Featured in NCI Bulletin By Leslie White Feb. 10, 2009 One of the cancer field’s most respected information sources, the National Cancer Institute Bulletin, recently featured the work of Craig Jordan, Ph.D., a cancer stem cell scientist at the University ...
