Research A Step Forward In Effort to Regenerate Damaged Nerves By URMC Communications Feb. 20, 2012 Jason Huang and his team have taken a step forward toward the goal of repairing nerves more effectively in patients who have been involved in car accidents or suffered other injuries. In a paper ...
Patient Care URMC Primary Care Network Receives Top Medical Home Certification from NCQA By Karin Gaffney Christensen Feb. 20, 2012 All 22 offices in the primary care network have been nationally certified at the highest level to offer a new model of care that promotes partnership between patients and a personal team of health ...
Patient Care Wilmot Cancer Center Recognized as One of Top 70 in Nation By URMC Communications Feb. 19, 2012 The James P. Wilmot Cancer Center has been named as one of the Top 70 Oncology programs in the United States by Becker’s Hospital Review, one of the nation’s foremost publications on up-to-date ...
Patient Care Jewelry Trunk Show to Benefit CARE for Cancer Survivors By Lori Barrette Feb. 17, 2012 Strong Fertility Center of the University of Rochester Medical Center will host a fundraising jewelry show 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, to benefit patients of the Center’s fertility preservation ...
Research As Diabetes Emerges, Researchers Track Disease’s First Steps By URMC Communications Feb. 16, 2012 Scientists have taken a remarkably detailed look at the initial steps that occur in the body when type 1 diabetes mellitus first develops in a child or young adult. The analysis comes from a team of ...
Education National Eating Disorders Awareness (NEDA) Week Events February 26-March 3, 2012 By Christine Roth Feb. 14, 2012 More than a half-dozen events will take place in the Rochester area in recognition of National Eating Disorders Awareness (NEDA) Week, February 26-March 3, 2012, with sponsorship from the Western New ...
Research Starve a Virus, Feed a Cure? By URMC Communications Feb. 12, 2012 A protein that protects some of our immune cells from the most common and virulent form of HIV works by starving the virus of the molecular building blocks that it needs to replicate, according to ...
Research Night, Weekend Delivery OK for Babies with Birth Defects By Emily Boynton Feb. 10, 2012 Weekday delivery is no better than night or weekend delivery for infants with birth defects, according to a new study presented today at The Pregnancy Meeting, the Society for Maternal-Fetal ...
Research To Avoid Early Labor and Delivery, Weight and Diet Changes Not the Answer By Emily Boynton Feb. 10, 2012 One of the strongest known risk factors for spontaneous or unexpected preterm birth – any birth that occurs before the 37th week of pregnancy, most often without a known cause – is already having had ...
Patient Care URMC Cardiothoracic Surgeon Honored by National Society By Leslie White Feb. 9, 2012 George L. Hicks, M.D., renowned cardiothoracic surgeon and chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center, was honored for his passion and dedication to mentoring surgeons of ...
