Community ‘Repeal and Replace’ Legislation in Congress: An Update from URMC CEO Mark Taubman By Mark Michaud Jun. 26, 2017 Uncertainty surrounding proposals in Congress to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is generating concern for faculty and staff members of the University of Rochester Medical Center, ...
Research Significant Racial Disparities Persist in Hospital Readmissions By Mark Michaud Jun. 26, 2017 A new study in the journal Health Affairs shows that, despite being designed to more effectively manage care and control costs, black patients enrolled with Medicare Advantage are far more likely to ...
Patient Care #ILookLikeASurgeon: Female Surgical Residents Reflect on Training at URMC By Leslie Orr Jun. 19, 2017 They’ve been mistaken for many other types of hospital employees. A few times, patients would only speak to their male counterparts. But when Bianca, Candice, Kristin, and Sandra officially end their ...
Patient Care Men’s Health Day Promotes Wellness, Prevention By Mark Michaud Jun. 12, 2017 UR Medicine’s 13th Annual Men’s Health Day will be held on Friday, June 16, 2017. Caregivers from across UR Medicine will discuss a range of important health topics that will give men the knowledge ...
Research Parkes Family’s Mission of Advancing Asthma Care Continues with UR Professorship By Leslie White Jun. 8, 2017 The family of the late Mary M. Parkes, for whom the UR Medicine asthma center is named, is continuing its mission of advancing care and research with creation of the Walter & Carmina Mary Parkes ...
Research Grant Helps Build Understanding of Environmental Health with Hands-on Science Kits By URMC Communications Jun. 6, 2017 Environmental health science kits developed by Science Take-Out, a URMC start-up company, will get a makeover with support from a new Small Business Technology Transfer grant. The kits will be ...
Patient Care Wilmot’s Rising Stars, Veterans, Bring Know-how to Oncology Peers By Leslie Orr May. 31, 2017 Two junior researchers at the Wilmot Cancer Institute —a post-doctoral associate and a fellow—each won merit awards from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and will be among the ...
Patient Care UR Medicine’s Flaum Eye Institute First in Region to Offer Procedure for Near Vision Loss By Leslie White May. 24, 2017 Flaum Eye Institute’s Scott MacRae, M.D., an international leader in LASIK vision correction, is the first in the Finger Lakes region to provide the Raindrop Near Vision Inlay, which treats ...
Research Musculoskeletal Researchers Engage Local Under-Represented Students in Science By URMC Communications May. 24, 2017 Students and faculty in the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at URMC have been teaching, and learning from, under-represented and economically disadvantaged teens in Rochester. Their new science ...
Research Chest Pain Drug Decreases Common Arrhythmias By Emily Boynton May. 11, 2017 A drug approved to treat chest pain reduces the incidence of a common arrhythmia called ventricular tachycardia in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, according to a study ...
