Patient Care FLDRN Sees Organ Donation Impact Reach All-Time High in 2018 By Karin Gaffney Christensen Jan. 21, 2019 Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network coordinated more organ donations and life-saving transplants in 2018 than any other year in the organization’s 32-year history.
Patient Care Grand Island Man Has Plenty of Reasons to be Grateful By Leslie White Nov. 20, 2018 A year ago, Neil Wolfe’s heart was three times the size that it should be. He had no idea it was one of the reasons he needed to buy new shirts, twice. That didn’t bother him as much as a lingering ...
Patient Care An Officer and an Organ Donor By Karin Gaffney Christensen Nov. 13, 2018 Lieutenant Dan Schermerhorn Jr. works the day shift. Peace Officer Paul Wlosinski works nights. The two University of Rochester Department of Public Safety colleagues are forever connected by an act ...
Research Delving Where Few Others Have Gone, Leukemia Researchers Open New Path By Leslie Orr Oct. 15, 2018 A Wilmot Cancer Institute study uncovers how a single gene could be at fault in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), one of the deadliest cancers. The breakthrough gives researchers renewed hope that a ...
Patient Care Harbor House Home-Away-From-Home Benefit is Sept. 29 By Leslie White Sep. 18, 2018 Rochester’s home-away-from-home for seriously ill patients will get a boost from the community during the “And the Beat Goes On…” benefit dinner for Harbor House of Rochester.
Patient Care UR Medicine Opens Liver Transplant Clinic in Syracuse By Karin Gaffney Christensen Aug. 23, 2018 UR Medicine has opened an ambulatory clinic for liver transplant at St. Joseph’s Health, providing care closer to home for the hundreds of UR Medicine liver transplant patients who live in Central ...
Patient Care Jamestown Post-Journal Sportswriter Scores a New Heart By Leslie White Jun. 15, 2018 Jamestown sportswriter Cody Crandall felt like he hit a grand slam when UR Medicine transplant cardiologists shared news that a matching heart was available for him. The 24-year-old former baseball ...
Patient Care Gift of Life Provides Strength, Hope to Auburn Woman, Family By Leslie White May. 11, 2018 As Mother’s Day nears, Roberta Watkins says only a hug from her 9-year-old compares with the extraordinary gift she received two weeks ago at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital. A generous donor ...
Community Run, Walk or Pledge Your Support for Transplant Patients at the 17th Annual Rochester River Run By Matt Ulakovic Apr. 10, 2018 Donors, transplant recipients, and families gather to salute Donate Life Month and raise funds in support of patients, awaiting or recovering from organ transplant surgery, at the Rochester River ...
Golisano Children's Hospital to Launch Pediatric Liver Transplant Program By URMC Communications Mar. 19, 2018 For the past decade, children in Upstate New York who needed a pediatric liver transplant didn’t have any local options. With no nearby providers, this meant long car trips or plane rides to New York ...
