Patient Care Tips for Tackling Tiredness By Lori Barrette Sep. 28, 2015 Fatigue is a common problem for many people and a common reason for seeing a doctor. UR Medicine Primary Care’s Dr. Laura Gift shares tactics for tackling five common energy-sapping culprits.
Patient Care 5 Food Factors for Lowering Prostate Cancer Risk By Lori Barrette Sep. 25, 2015 In the U.S., more than 220,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. Some risk factors for prostate cancer—such as your family history or your race—can’t be controlled. Wilmot Cancer ...
Patient Care Young Artists Host Gala to Support Programs for Children with Vision Loss By Leslie White Sep. 25, 2015 A group of young performing artists is holding a gala Oct. 10 to support UR Medicine Flaum Eye Institute’s programs to help children with vision loss in Rochester and across the world.
Patient Care Rotondo Tapped to Lead Prestigious Surgical Society By Germaine Reinhardt Sep. 24, 2015 Michael F. Rotondo, M.D., F.A.C.S., CEO of the University of Rochester’s Medical Faculty Group, was voted president of one of the country’s leading surgical associations, The Halsted Society, at its ...
Research $3 Million Funds Research to Develop New HIV Vaccine Strategies By Emily Boynton Sep. 24, 2015 Infectious disease researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry will use $3.1 million from the National Institutes of Health to find new ways to develop a vaccine to ...
Research Study: Extreme Preemies Have a Better Chance of Survival Today By Susanne Pallo Sep. 22, 2015 Extremely premature infants born between 23 and 28 weeks of pregnancy are more likely to survive and are healthier after birth today than they were 20 years ago.
Research From Atomic Bomb to Lead and Pollution, Environmental Researchers Celebrate Rich History and Promising Future By URMC Communications Sep. 17, 2015 URMC scientists are honoring decades of investigating the impact of environmental exposures on health— dating back to the 1940s when they first looked into the toxicants used in the atomic bomb, to ...
Research URMC’s Center for Musculoskeletal Research Has Banner Year for NIH Funding By Barbara Ficarra Sep. 17, 2015 For nearly 20 years URMC’s Center for Musculoskeletal Research (CMSR) has been one of the top NIH-funded orthopaedic research programs in the country, and this is shaping up to be its best year yet: ...
Research Wilmot Cancer Institute’s Research Director Wins $6.3M Outstanding Investigator Award By Leslie Orr Sep. 17, 2015 Hartmut “Hucky” Land, Ph.D., the Robert and Dorothy Markin Professor of Biomedical Genetics at the University of Rochester, received a newly established multimillion dollar award from the National ...
Patient Care Free Prostate Cancer Screenings for Uninsured Men Sept. 23 By Ruth Harper-Rhode Sep. 16, 2015 UR Medicine Urology will provide free prostate cancer screenings for uninsured men on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Brown Square Health Center, 322 Lake Ave., Rochester. The screenings, available by ...
