Tag: health care professionals

UR Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital recently provided its 1,000th heart pump, a lifesaving therapy for patients with advanced heart failure. This milestone has been attained by only a handful of ...

Having a phone with you can always save your life—but the power of smartphones may go beyond just a call. Even when unconscious or unable to communicate, your smartphone can save your life with these ...

AI mental health apps may offer a cheap and accessible way to fill the gaps in the overstretched U.S. mental healthcare system, but ethics experts warn that we need to be thoughtful about how we use ...

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded the Wilmot Cancer Institute a special designation that places it in the top 4% of all cancer centers in the United States. But what is NCI designation ...

Wilmot Cancer Institute recently welcomed well-known breast cancer surgeon Lori Medeiros, MD, to the Pluta Comprehensive Breast Care Program. In addition to her role as a breast surgeon in the ...

Cervical cancer screening is one of the best success stories in healthcare. Since the 1970s, the death rate from cervical cancer has dropped by more than half. Alexandra Blackman, MD, shares what you ...

Many people have social networks they cherish: Family and friends. A church community. Colleagues at work and online groups. What happens with these networks when a person gets cancer? It’s a ...

The University of Rochester’s research into the health of Deaf communities will expand nationwide with renewed funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Patients who have colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver come from all over the U.S. to have living-donor liver transplants at the University of Rochester Medical Center. A new report shows ...

A treatment that rallies the immune system to destroy cancer raised the survival rate for advanced Hodgkin lymphoma patients to a remarkable 92 percent, suggesting a new standard therapy for the ...