Tag: infectious diseases

UR Medicine launched its first COVID-19 vaccine center for patients today at Manhattan Square Family Medicine, the first step in a months-long campaign to vaccinate patients across the Finger Lakes ...

Later this week URMC plans to begin vaccinating patients in “Group 1B” and others who are eligible. Patients will be contacted directly when they can schedule an appointment at one of two new ...

Conesus, Shore Winds facilities to provide up to 100 beds for patients ready for discharge, expanding hospitals’ capacity for critically ill patients.

Just days after the first doses arrived Dec. 14, nearly 1900 UR Medicine staff on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic have received Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to protect themselves from COVID-19.

An interim analysis of study data from a coronavirus vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech indicates that the vaccine is highly effective in preventing COVID-19.

The grant will allow the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Infectious Diseases Division to conduct HIV/AIDS vaccine and treatment trials and study emerging infections that require national ...

Paritosh Prasad, M.D., has taken care of patients with COVID-19 in Strong Memorial Hospital’s intensive care unit since the start of the pandemic. He and his children share important messages with ...

The Translational Immunology and Infectious Diseases Institute will focus on the development of new treatments and vaccines, and strategies to better control the spread of infectious diseases like ...

New research gives a thumbs up to offering the shingles vaccine to lymphoma patients, who were often not eligible in the past.

Harvey J. Alter, M.D., received the award for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus. A graduate of both the undergraduate college (1956) and the School of Medicine and Dentistry (1960), Alter is the ...