Patient Care Flu Shots: What, Why and When By Lori Barrette Oct. 2, 2018 Flu season is rapidly approaching and ads for flu shots are popping up everywhere. Should you get one? Will it work? UR Medicine vaccine expert Dr. Ann Falsey explains what's new this year and why ...
Community $1.8M Grant Supports Life-Changing Cancer Services Across the Finger Lakes Region By Karin Gaffney Christensen Oct. 1, 2018 The URMC Center for Community Health and Prevention will use the state funding to expand its Cancer Services Program of Monroe County to the surrounding of Seneca, Yates, Wayne, Ontario and ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Unveils Upstate New York’s First Mobile Stroke Unit By Mark Michaud Sep. 27, 2018 Next month, UR Medicine will begin operation of a Mobile Stroke Unit, a high-tech ‘emergency room on wheels’ that is designed to provide life-saving care to stroke victims. The $1 million unit will ...
Research Researchers Glimpse into ‘Real World’ of Cancer and Financial Hardship By Leslie Orr Sep. 26, 2018 Nearly one in five older patients with advanced cancer have financial problems that may cause them to delay treatment to cover food and housing costs, which leads to stress and poor quality of life, ...
Patient Care Slice of History: Friends of Strong Celebrates $1 Million Milestone, Efforts to Enhance Patient Care By Matt Ulakovic Sep. 25, 2018 For the first time ever, Friends of Strong gave $1 million to support patient care programs throughout Strong Memorial Hospital in a single year—breaking all previous funding records for the ...
Patient Care Scientists Uncover Valuable Gene Activity for Precancerous Cysts, Cancer in Pancreas By Leslie Orr Sep. 24, 2018 A Wilmot Cancer Institute study revealed the actions of a key gene and its surrounding network that causes cysts in the pancreas, as well as how cancer arises from the cysts. The work could someday ...
Research Common Painkiller Not Effective for Traumatic Nerve Injury By Mark Michaud Sep. 24, 2018 A new study out today in the Journal of Neurology finds that pregabalin is not effective in controlling the chronic pain that sometimes develops following traumatic nerve injury. The results of the ...
Research Roswell Park and URMC to Create $19 Million Research Program Focused on Flavored Tobacco By Susanne Pallo Sep. 21, 2018 The grant will unite teams from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Rochester Medical Center in an effort to better document and understand one of the fastest-growing ...
Education Picking Peas to Patient Care By Patrick Broadwater Sep. 18, 2018 In early 1952, three nursing students from the University of Rochester were selected for an overseas trip to assist Europe with its massive post-war rehabilitation. Sponsored by the National Student ...
