Patient Care Is Mercury in Fish Bad for You? By Mark Michaud Jul. 25, 2024 Vital for a healthy diet and providing nutrients essential for brain development, fish consumption is safe if you follow guidelines.
Research New Model Could Help Provide Expectant Mothers a Clearer Path to Safe Fish Consumption By Mark Michaud Jun. 28, 2024 New framework separates mercury exposure into fish intake and average mercury content of the consumed, findings that could reduce confusion, and produce clearer guidance on fish consumption for ...
Patient Care Pregnancy and Weight: Why It Matters By Sydney Burrows Jun. 11, 2024 If you’re pregnant or considering having a baby, you likely have a long list of questions. Weight gain and loss might be on that list—and it should be, according to UR Medicine Obstetrics & ...
Patient Care Six Things Everyone Needs to Know About Stillbirths By Sydney Burrows Mar. 1, 2024 Heather Florescue, MD, an Obstetrics & Gynecology provider at Highland Hospital, is working hard to share stillbirth prevention and awareness information with both the public and the medical ...
Research Research continues to rule out brain’s immune system as key to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders By Kelsie Smith Hayduk May. 8, 2023 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 ...
Research Halting the Rise of Parkinson’s By Mark Michaud Apr. 24, 2023 The University of Rochester’s leadership in the field of environmental medicine stretches back to toxicology research programs developed at the University under the Manhattan Project. These programs ...
Research Combining Pregnancy and Dental Check Ups By Karen Black Feb. 8, 2023 Thanks to a University of Rochester Medical Center grant, Eastman Institute for Oral Health Associate Professor Jin Xiao, DDS, PhD, will use artificial intelligence and digital technology to help ...
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 ...