Patient Care Miracle Kids 2022: Abigail “Abby” Quinn By Susanne Pallo Jun. 7, 2022 Abby Quinn was a perfectly healthy 13-year-old, making TikTok dance videos and playing multiple sports, when a simple cold landed her in the hospital in June of 2021. That cold, as it turned out, ...
Patient Care Miracle Kids 2022: Alexander Wilson By URMC Communications Jun. 7, 2022 Baby Alexander wasn’t breathing when he was born. He experienced both respiratory and kidney failure, needing multiple life-support machines in his first days of life. Now at four months old, ...
Patient Care Miracle Kids 2022: Maddisyn Rollins By Scott Hesel Jun. 7, 2022 Shortly after being born, surgeons at Golisano Children’s Hospital (GCH) determined that Maddisyn Rollins might not have enough small intestine to survive or live a normal life. The dedication of her ...
Research EIOH Awarded $3.5 Million for First-of-its-Kind Study By Karen Black May. 17, 2022 UR Medicine’s Eastman Institute for Oral Health has been awarded a $3.5 million grant to conduct a first-ever study that will examine early-life biological factors related to severe tooth decay among ...
Research Daily Steroids Safe and Slow Progression of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy By Mark Michaud May. 2, 2022 New research published in JAMA recommends daily steroid doses for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, marking a significant change in how the disease is treated.
Research New research finds the risk of psychotic-like experiences can start in childhood By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Apr. 25, 2022 Research has long focused on the impact environmental and socio-economic factors – including income disparity, family poverty, and air pollution – have on increasing a person’s risk of developing ...
Research Study Links Fracking, Drinking Water Pollution, and Infant Health By Mark Michaud Apr. 11, 2022 New research links shale gas development in Pennsylvania to pollution of public water supplies and negative impacts on infant health. The findings call for closer environmental regulation of the ...
Research New Research Shows Survival Rate Improvement for Extremely Pre-term Infants By Scott Hesel Mar. 3, 2022 A new paper examined the survival outcomes of 10,877 infants born at 22-28 weeks' gestational age between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2018, at 19 academic medical centers that form the ...
People New Faculty Member Looks to Build on Collaborative Framework By Scott Hesel Feb. 10, 2022 For Sarah Lander, M.D., the joy of working in pediatric orthopaedics and sports medicine is in getting to know her patients and their parents, both through the difficult times of injury and then ...
Research Experimental Gene Therapy Targets Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy By Mark Michaud Feb. 9, 2022 Children in Rochester were recently among the first in the nation to be enrolled in a phase 3 clinical trial for a new gene therapy to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
