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As healthcare organizations and providers across the country promote March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness month, faculty and staff of the James. P. Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester ...

The gap in flu vaccination rates between elderly whites, African-Americans and Hispanics is amplified when vaccine supply is limited or delayed. That is the conclusion of a study out today in the ...

While questions persist about the best ways to detect breast cancer early, a CT imaging system developed at the University of Rochester Medical Center and first unveiled four years ago is in a better ...

The nation’s top scientific advisory panel today recommended that most children and adults modestly increase their intake of vitamin D, known as the “sunshine vitamin,” from a daily dietary intake of ...

Two new vitamin D studies from the University of Rochester Medical Center suggest intriguing ties between a deficiency of D and breast and colon cancer, particularly among African Americans.

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center are forging ahead with an important first step in the National Children’s Study: Determining how to most accurately collect, preserve and ...

National health care efforts to curb the spread of the dangerous bacterial infection MRSA seem to be paying off, according to new research published in today's Journal of the American Medical ...

The University of Rochester has been ranked one of the top 15 institutions in the nation for scientists to work, according to The Scientist magazine, which has published its annual survey of “Best ...

University of Rochester Medical Center physicians recently performed upstate New York’s first radioembolization procedure for primary liver cancer. This technique combats the tumor in patients who ...

Cancer survivors who perform gentle yoga report they sleep better, feel less fatigued and enjoy better quality of life, according to the University of Rochester Medical Center, which is presenting ...