Research EIOH Awarded $3.5 Million for First-of-its-Kind Study By Karen Black May. 17, 2022 UR Medicine’s Eastman Institute for Oral Health has been awarded a $3.5 million grant to conduct a first-ever study that will examine early-life biological factors related to severe tooth decay among ...
Research Study Links Fracking, Drinking Water Pollution, and Infant Health By Mark Michaud Apr. 11, 2022 New research links shale gas development in Pennsylvania to pollution of public water supplies and negative impacts on infant health. The findings call for closer environmental regulation of the ...
Research New Research Shows Survival Rate Improvement for Extremely Pre-term Infants By Scott Hesel Mar. 3, 2022 A new paper examined the survival outcomes of 10,877 infants born at 22-28 weeks' gestational age between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2018, at 19 academic medical centers that form the ...
Research Researchers restore brain immune system function after prenatal exposure to environmental toxin By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Feb. 8, 2022 New research shows that exposure to the industrial byproduct TCDD in utero could cause the brain’s immune system to go array later in life, damaging important brain circuits, and potentially giving ...
Research Research continues to rule out brain’s immune system as key to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Nov. 2, 2021 Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester continue to find evidence that the brain’s immune system may not be the culprit behind fetal alcohol spectrum ...
Legacy of Racism in Housing Policies Continues to Impact Maternal Health By Mark Michaud Oct. 4, 2021 Housing policies established more than eight decades ago that effectively trapped people of color in low income and segregated neighborhoods continues to impact the health of residents, resulting in ...
Patient Care URMC Pilots Optical Genome Mapping for Patient Care By Bethany Bushen Sep. 30, 2021 Every decade or so, a new technology comes along to help clinical labs identify genetic abnormalities. Whether a patient is a pregnant mother, a young child, someone with rare cancer or genetic ...
Patient Care Can I get Pregnant after Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine? Does the Vaccine Affect a Man’s Fertility? By Emily Boynton Sep. 20, 2021 Tieg Beazer understands why people are scared and uncertain about getting vaccinated before or during pregnancy. She got the shot and then got pregnant, and she’s eager to share her story with others.
Research Fracking Comes at the Expense of Water Quality By Mark Michaud Aug. 25, 2021 In a perspective piece that appears in the journal Science, Elaine Hill, Ph.D., calls for tighter regulation and monitoring of fracking as more evidence points to the negative health consequences of ...
Research Do COVID Vaccines (and Boosters) Protect You During Pregnancy? By Susanne Pallo May. 17, 2021 By all accounts, COVID vaccines in use in the U.S. today are highly effective, but pregnant people have largely been left out of the research behind the vaccines. A new study at URMC will follow 135 ...
