Research Batten Disease: Principal Project of UR IDDRC By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 28, 2020 The principal project of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center will focus on Batten disease, specifically CLN3 disease, also known as juvenile-onset Batten disease. The ...
Research A national nod to IDD Research By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 28, 2020 The effort to better understand intellectual and developmental disabilities and improve the lives of individuals and families impacted by an IDD diagnosis is at the heart of a decades-long ...
Patient Care What are Dense Breasts? By Leslie Orr Oct. 22, 2020 Find out if you have higher-risk, dense breast tissue and talk to your doctor about additional screening.
Research Fresh Faces, New Energy: Transforming Research at Wilmot By Leslie Orr Oct. 20, 2020 Wilmot Cancer Institute leadership has enlisted bright minds from across the nation to come here, to Rochester, as part of a team that pledges to defeat cancer.
People Irwin Frank, Leading Urologist, Dies at 93 By Mark Michaud Oct. 19, 2020 Irwin N. Frank, M.D. – one of the most influential urologists in the last half-century – has died at the age of 93. Frank, who spent his entire academic and medical career at the University of ...
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 ...
Patient Care MyChart is Getting Supercharged with a New Look and Even Faster Results By Andrea Westerlund Oct. 9, 2020 UR Medicine is launching MyChart: Immediate Release on Oct. 11, which will give patients access to more of their health information than ever before.
Research One Way to Prevent Cancer: Map the Fundamentals of How Cells Go Awry By Leslie Orr Oct. 8, 2020 Wilmot scientists focused on proteins involved in breast and brain cancer and melanoma, and made a new discovery.
Community URMC Unveils Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan By Chip Partner Oct. 7, 2020 The University of Rochester Medical Center today released its Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan, a five-year effort to strengthen diversity and inclusion at the Medical Center, address inequities in ...
People School of Medicine and Dentistry Alumnus Harvey J. Alter Wins Nobel Prize By Emily Boynton, Sara Miller Oct. 6, 2020 Harvey J. Alter, M.D., received the award for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus. A graduate of both the undergraduate college (1956) and the School of Medicine and Dentistry (1960), Alter is the ...
