Patient Care URMC Announces Strategic Partnership with Auburn Community Hospital, St. Joseph’s Health By Karin Christensen Dec. 14, 2017 The agreement is designed to improve community health and quality of care for Auburn-area residents by sharing information and resources across the three systems.
Research Patient Plays Saxophone While Surgeons Remove Brain Tumor By Mark Michaud Aug. 25, 2017 Music is not only a major part of Dan Fabbio’s life, as a music teacher it is his livelihood. So when doctors discovered a tumor located in the part of his brain responsible for music function, he ...
Patient Care Are We on the Heels of a Gene Signature for High-Grade Breast Cancer? By Leslie Orr Jul. 10, 2017 A pathology researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center believes she’s discovered an important phenomenon in normal-looking breast tissue that could foreshadow an aggressive tumor known ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Opens New Outpatient Imaging Center By Leslie White Jun. 5, 2017 UR Medicine is transforming the experience for people undergoing diagnostic imaging testing and introduces the Finger Lakes region’s first outpatient interventional radiology clinic with the opening ...
Patient Care Scanxiety: Coping with Fear About Cancer Tests By Lydia Fernandez Aug. 4, 2016 If you have cancer or are a cancer survivor, you’ll likely undergo tests to determine the effectiveness of your treatments or to learn if your cancer is in remission. Getting a scan can be ...
People Nuclear Medicine Physicist, UR Alum David A. Weber, Ph.D., Dies By Leslie White Apr. 11, 2016 Nuclear medicine physicist David A. Weber, Ph.D., who worked at University of Rochester Medical Center from 1970 to 1987, died at his Pittsford home March 31. He was 77.
Patient Care Free Mammograms Offered Feb. 13 in Henrietta By Ruth Harper-Rhode Jan. 29, 2016 UR Medicine Breast Imaging at Red Creek and Cancer Services Program of Monroe County have partnered to offer free screening mammograms on Saturday, Feb. 13, from 8 a.m. to noon for women age 40 and ...
Patient Care Mammograms: Facts on 'False Positives' By Lori Barrette Dec. 14, 2015 Ten to 16 percent of women who get screening mammograms are called back for additional testing. Though few of them will end up having cancer, callbacks can cause anxiety, even when they result in a ...
Research Using the Power of Optics, Scientists Make Predictions about Breast Cancer By Leslie Orr Nov. 30, 2015 A University of Rochester biomedical engineering lab discovered a new way to judge whether breast cancer cells are likely to spread, by viewing tumor biopsies with a powerful multi-photon laser ...
Patient Care Golisano Children’s Hospital debuts Integrated PET-MRI By URMC Communications Oct. 30, 2015 UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital recently became the first children’s hospital in the country to administer an integrated PET-MRI scan to a patient.
