Community Benefit for Harbor House Home-Away-From-Home is Sept. 23 By Leslie White Sep. 14, 2017 The 11th annual “And the Beat Goes On…” benefit dinner for Rochester’s Harbor House will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Locust Hill Country Club. Harbor House is a home-away-from-home ...
Patient Care Sept. 7 Junior Builders’ Golf Tournament Benefits Mary Parkes Asthma Center By Leslie White Sep. 1, 2017 The Rochester Junior Builders’ Exchange hosts its 22nd annual charity golf tournament to benefit UR Medicine’s Mary Parkes Center for Asthma, Allergy and Pulmonary Care on Thursday, Sept. 7, at ...
Resident Rock Star: Facing Rare Diagnosis, Jack Scaramuzzino Fights Through Adversity to Thrive By URMC Communications Aug. 28, 2017 Jack Scaramuzzino was born with hypoplastic right heart syndrome, one of the rarest cardiac defects seen in newborns. He underwent his first open heart surgery when he was just five days old, and ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Provides 3 Heart Transplants in 5 Days By Leslie White Aug. 9, 2017 UR Medicine’s Advanced Heart Failure team recently performed three heart transplant surgeries in a span of just five days at Strong Memorial Hospital, providing the Gift of Life for three men from ...
Research “Code Blue” Equals Lower Survival for Cancer Patients By Leslie Orr Jul. 31, 2017 Patients with advanced cancer who suffer cardiac arrest in the hospital have a survival rate of less than 10 percent — half the rate of other patients without cancer, according to a nationwide study ...
Patient Care Oswego County Father Receives New Heart, Goes Home to See Daughter Graduate By Leslie White Jun. 21, 2017 When Central Square father Donald Tuffley and his family attend his daughter’s commencement ceremony on Friday, June 23, it will be a dream come true. It’s an important moment he feared he would ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Cardiac Rehabilitation Relocates, Expands By Leslie White Jun. 19, 2017 UR Medicine Heart and Vascular’s Cardiac Rehabilitation program is relocating and joining two busy Cardiology and Vascular surgery programs at 140 Canal View Office Park.
Research Parkes Family’s Mission of Advancing Asthma Care Continues with UR Professorship By Leslie White Jun. 8, 2017 The family of the late Mary M. Parkes, for whom the UR Medicine asthma center is named, is continuing its mission of advancing care and research with creation of the Walter & Carmina Mary Parkes ...
Research Arthur Moss Receives Heart Rhythm Society’s Pioneer in Cardiac Pacing and EP Award By Emily Boynton May. 12, 2017 Arthur J. Moss, M.D., received the award for his dedication to understanding and treating electrical disturbances of the heart, including cardiac arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death, heart failure and ...
Research Chest Pain Drug Decreases Common Arrhythmias By Emily Boynton May. 11, 2017 A drug approved to treat chest pain reduces the incidence of a common arrhythmia called ventricular tachycardia in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, according to a study ...
