Tag: patients and families

We’ve all known middle-aged people who seem older because of health problems and 75-year-olds who seem younger because they’re very healthy. Scientists want to know if measuring a cancer patient’s ...

A new study appearing this week in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law catalogues community-based efforts to develop strategies and policies that – by targeting high risk housing – may ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center has sent letters to a group of former orthopaedic patients, alerting them to the loss of protected health information.

URMC’s Strong Fertility Center is celebrating 30 years of helping families grow through IVF by honoring Henry Thiede, M.D., retired chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology and professor emeritus. Thiede’s ...

The Monroe County Medical Society will present the 2013 Edward Mott Moore Physician Award to Louis J. Papa, M.D., at its annual meeting May 1. The award is the organization's highest honor.

Raising 100,000 Voices is presenting a premiere screening of mini-documentaries produced by young people growing up in the City of Rochester. The event takes place beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center has partnered with the Rochester Dermatologic Society and the American Academy of Dermatology to host a free cancer screening on Saturday, May 11 from 8 ...

Since 2001, more than two million service members have been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and studies indicate nearly a third of them have suffered traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic ...

Tamoxifen is a time-honored breast cancer drug used to treat millions of women with early-stage and less-aggressive disease, and now a University of Rochester Medical Center team has shown how to ...

Two people are recovering after a pair of heart transplants performed recently at the University of Rochester Medical Center. This was the first time the Program in Heart Failure and Transplantation ...