Tag: patients and families

Toddler with Down Syndrome Smiles through Heart Surgery, Chemotherapy

Persevering through Loss: Family Support and Skilled Care helps Teen Fully Recover from Tragedy

Jacob Cole is 15. The high school freshman likes Harry Potter, the Buffalo Bills, concerts, fast food and fancy cars, as in Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Though functionally blind from birth and small ...

In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Lucille stood at the bedside of her son, Marquan. She was looking at a shell of what she knew him to be...a gregarious, loving young boy. At 12 years old, the ...

When Tracy Downs decided to quit smoking, she had little faith that it would actually happen. But then she met Patty Mallaber, ANP-BC, in Wilmot Cancer Institute’s Tobacco Dependence Treatment ...

With help from their team at Wilmot Cancer Institute, a couple living with cancer achieved their dream of getting married.

Former URMC CEO Bradford C. Berk reflects on his own spinal cord injury that left him a quadriplegic and details his experience – as a doctor and a patient – to create a user’s manual for those ...

Pfizer and BioNTech raised questions last week with news of a plan to seek authorization for COVID booster shots and to develop a new Delta variant COVID vaccine. Our experts answer those questions.

Joe Franch had just had his colonoscopy three years ago, so he thought there was no way the blood in his stool could be cancer. But when he stayed on top of his symptoms, he learned the news: he had ...

A recent URMC study has found that sensitive, responsive parenting - specifically in early childhood - has a direct correlation with not only positive mental and physical health, but also financial ...