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Is the Plastic in Your Kitchen Harmful?

  • May. 30, 2025
Plastics in the kitchen may pose a risk, but their true health impact remains unclear. Researchers stress the need for more studies to understand how everyday plastic use affects our bodies.
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Halting the Rise of Parkinson’s

  • 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 ...
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UR Medicine’s Batavia Campus Opens

  • May. 11, 2022
The new campus will open its doors to patients on May 16, strengthening the health system’s commitment to increase access to specialist and primary care for patients in Genesee, Orleans, and Wyoming ...
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Heatwole Appointed Director of CHeT

  • Apr. 27, 2022
Chad Heatwole, M.D., M.S., has been appointed the new director of the Center for Health + Technology (CHeT) at the University of Rochester, one of the nation's leading academic centers in clinical ...
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When Does a Pandemic Become Endemic?

  • Feb. 28, 2022
Ann Falsey, M.D., addresses the question of what life may look like once COVID takes its place among other circulating respiratory diseases that, while dangerous for some, do not produce spikes in ...