Patient Care When Motherhood, Breast Cancer and COVID Collide: How One Local Teacher Persists Despite Challenges By Ruth Harper-Rhode Oct. 16, 2020 While every pregnancy is unpredictable, Colleen Molina had no idea the upheaval she was about to face. In February 2020, she found out she had breast cancer, mere weeks before her second child was ...
Research Rochester Community Initiative Increases Teenage Use of Effective Contraception By Scott Hesel Jul. 9, 2020 The study found that usage of LARC among sexually active high school females in Rochester increased from 4 to 24 percent from 2013-2017, compared to an increase from 2.7 to 5.3 percent in New York ...
Patient Care Statement Regarding Maternity Safeguards and COVID-19 By URMC Communications Mar. 31, 2020 We have been fielding many inquiries today about a family that gave birth recently at Strong Memorial Hospital that was featured in the news. We want to protect the privacy of this family while ...
Research Vitamin D Supplementation in Pregnancy Has No Effect on Reducing Asthma in Children By Scott Hesel Feb. 13, 2020 A new study finds that giving mothers vitamin D during pregnancy doesn’t prevent asthma or recurrent wheezing in young children.
Research Breastmilk Sugars Differ in Pregnant Women on Probiotics By URMC Communications Jan. 22, 2019 The complex sugars found in human breastmilk, long believed to be fixed in their composition, may change in women who are taking probiotics.
Research New Research Seeks to Understand Link Between Iron and Brain Development By Mark Michaud Oct. 24, 2018 Iron deficiency is the one of the most prevalent nutritional deficiencies in the world and affects mainly pregnant mothers and young children. Numerous studies have found that mothers who have low ...
Patient Care URMC Physician Earns National Palliative Care Award By Lori Barrette Jun. 13, 2018 Palliative care physician Erin Denney-Koelsch, M.D., who formed an interdisciplinary program to support expectant parents of babies not likely to survive, was honored with the 2018 Hastings Center ...
Research Fracking the Immune System By Susanne Pallo Apr. 30, 2018 Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center are the first to report links between early life exposure to chemicals in ground water near fracking sites and immune system imbalances in ...
Research Study will Explore Air Pollution’s Impact on the Developing Fetus By Mark Michaud Oct. 8, 2017 New research will seek to understand the biological mechanisms that are triggered by exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and lead to lower birth weight in newborns, placing them at greater ...
Research Study Pokes Holes in Fetal Alcohol Hypothesis By Mark Michaud Oct. 4, 2017 A new study published in the journal Brain Behavior and Immunity appears to challenge the theory that cells in the brain’s immune system are the culprit behind the neurological damage that occurs in ...