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The University of Rochester’s School of Nursing and School of Medicine and Dentistry once again placed among the top 35 schools ranked by the 2021 Best Graduate Schools guide produced by U.S. News ...

Harriet Kitzman, PhD, RN, FAAN, a brilliant and internationally renowned researcher whose lifetime of work in pediatrics reshaped how health care is provided to young mothers and their children, died ...

COVID 19 virusAs the community prepares for the anticipated rise in COVID-19 cases, UR Medicine today announced that it has begun to reschedule some patient appointments and redeploy resources to ...

Visitor Restrictions for Inpatient UnitsFollowing guidelines issued by the Monroe County Department of Public Health and endorsed by our hospitals, both Strong Memorial and Highland have changed ...

Rochester, N.Y., March 12, 2020–Monroe County Department of Public Health notified Highland Hospital late on Wednesday that a positive COVID-19 result came back on a patient who was evaluated at ...

A new book titled “Ending Parkinson’s Disease: A Prescription for Action” and authored by University of Rochester Medical Center neurologist Ray Dorsey, M.D. and his colleagues, lays out a new ...

Genetic tests for cancer helps doctors and patients figure out the best targeted therapy matched to the tumor’s mutations. But the tests leave questions hanging about radiation therapy — until now.

In a first-of-its-kind for the University of Rochester Medical Center and Upstate New York, experts from four disciplines worked together to perform in one day a procedure that previously would have ...

New research appearing in the journal Addiction shows that the number of deaths attributed to opioid-related overdoses could be 28 percent higher than reported due to incomplete death records. ...

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