Girl battling cancer finds comfort in unusual friend By URMC Communications Feb. 26, 2015 Since the beginning of the school year a stuffed monkey named Mavrie has sat in Avrie Sinesiou’s chair in her first grade classroom at Seneca Elementary. “Monkey in My Chair” is a national campaign ...
Patient Care Pop Quiz: Sorting Out Soda Stats By Lori Barrette Feb. 26, 2015 Ah, the sweet, refreshing effervescence of an ice-cold soda. Many of us enjoy it with meals and snacks. Some of us wake up with it rather than coffee. But recent studies suggest that soda—even the ...
Patient Care Myth Buster: 3 Facts About Vaccines By Lori Barrette Feb. 26, 2015 News media and social networks are frequently buzzing with debate over vaccines. Blame and misinformation are everywhere. UR Medicine pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Geoffrey Weinberg ...
Cool It: What’s Behind that Hot Flash? By URMC Communications Feb. 26, 2015 It’s 3 a.m. and you’re jolted awake by a burst of heat that radiates from your face, neck and torso—until you’re drenched in sweat. Sound familiar? It may if you’re a woman in her late 30s and ...
Education Trading Places By URMC Communications Feb. 26, 2015 Last fall, leaders in the Department of Neurology began asking residents to shadow a nurse for a day. Soon after, nurses in Strong Memorial Hospital’s neurological unit started spending a full day ...
Research Searching for a Job in Science? Turn to the CPD for Help By URMC Communications Feb. 26, 2015 Alison Billroth-MacLurg, a six-year Ph.D. candidate in Deborah Fowell’s lab, is in the thick of planning her career and recently attended a one-day mini course to help basic scientists become more ...
Patient Care Ganatra Family Supports Future of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery By URMC Communications Feb. 26, 2015 A $1.5 million commitment from the Ganatra family will create the Tansukh, Sarla and Rajesh Ganatra Professorship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. The commitment is part of the family’s long-time ...
Education Dyson Day Lecture to Address Child Poverty, Links to Health Care By URMC Communications Feb. 24, 2015 Ed Doherty, former Vice President for Community Programs at the Rochester Area Community Foundation (RACF) and author of a series of special reports on the area’s poverty issues, will speak at the ...
Research Study Tracks Prevalence of Childhood Muscle Disease By URMC Communications Feb. 23, 2015 A new study in the journal Pediatrics has found that approximately one in 5,000 young boys in the U.S. have Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy, two of the more common inherited neuromuscular ...
Patient Care Eating Disorders: 10 Early Signs You Might Miss By Lori Barrette Feb. 23, 2015 Everyone knows of someone with an eating disorder. In the U.S., about 20 million women and 10 million men have eating disorders, ranging from the more commonly known anorexia nervosa and bulimia to ...
