Research URMC Research: Protecting Hearts of Childhood Leukemia Survivors By Leslie Orr Jun. 4, 2012 About 75 percent of children with leukemia who take chemotherapy face life-threatening heart problems as they age, but an international study led by a University of Rochester Medical Center ...
Education Beautiful Weather Takes Charity Events Outdoors By URMC Communications May. 31, 2012 Summer is the perfect time to get outside and enjoy the company of family and friends. See how you can get out and help support Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical ...
Research Listening in, Researchers Learn About End-of-Life Communication By Leslie Orr May. 31, 2012 What is the best way to talk to someone about prognosis and quality of life when serious illness strikes? It turns out that no one had studied that question through direct observation, until the ...
Education Wilmot Cancer Center at Forefront of Geriatric Oncology Education, Research By URMC Communications May. 30, 2012 As more than 34,000 oncologists from diverse locations throughout the U.S. and the world gather in Chicago for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting later this week (June ...
Research Looking for Clues from Frogs, Fish, and Snails to Fight Off Disease By URMC Communications May. 30, 2012 Researchers from around North America will gather in Rochester next week to trade notes about the disease-fighting capabilities of catfish, frogs, snails, sea squirts and other species, in an effort ...
Patient Care URMC Offers New Implantable Heartburn ‘Ring’ By URMC Communications May. 29, 2012 The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) is one of just 13 U.S. surgery sites chosen to offer the LINX™ Reflux Management System, a new implantable magnetic “ring” that promises relief to ...
Research “Just Do It!” Not Good Enough for Cancer Patients, UR Researchers Say By Leslie Orr May. 29, 2012 Exercise generally helps the nation’s 12 million cancer survivors, and researchers are working toward being able to prove, with scientific certainty, that prescriptions for daily yoga or 20 minutes ...
Research Yuhchyau Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Named Fellow in Elite Leadership Program By URMC Communications May. 28, 2012 Yuhchyau Chen, M.D., Pd.D., Philip Rubin Professor and chair of Radiation Oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, has been accepted into the 2012-2013 class of Fellows for the Hedwig van ...
Education Rochester-Area Collaboration Selected for National Pain Education Effort By URMC Communications May. 25, 2012 An unusually broad collaboration of health professionals from the greater Rochester area has been selected by the National Institutes of Health to help lead the nation’s assault on pain. The effort ...
Patient Care Given One in Five Chance of Survival, Amazing Grace Defies the Odds By URMC Communications May. 23, 2012 Grace Esposito was given a one in five chance of surviving but this "amazing" child has beaten all the odds, with help from expert care at Golisano Children's Hospital. She is one of five children ...
