Research What Frogs Can Teach Us About Tumors By URMC Communications Jan. 4, 2016 Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry have developed a new model of cancer in frogs to study how tumors grow, spread, and manipulate immune cells. These ...
Education By Asking, “What’s the Worst Part of This?” Physicians Can Ease Suffering By Leslie Orr Dec. 22, 2015 When patients suffer, doctors tend to want to fix things and if they cannot many doctors then withdraw emotionally. But by turning toward the suffering, physicians can better help their patients and ...
Research Aiming at Cellular ‘Neighborhood’ around Blood Cancer Improves Outcomes By URMC Communications Dec. 18, 2015 Wilmot Cancer Institute investigators have shown direct evidence of how changes in the blood-cell manufacturing environment can cause cells to malfunction and turn cancerous. The research, reported ...
Research Is Chemical Exposure in Mothers, Babies, Linked to Poor Vaccine Response? By Leslie Orr Dec. 9, 2015 Early life exposures to toxic chemicals such as PCBs and DDT dampen an infant’s response to the tuberculosis vaccine, according to a new study from the University of Rochester Environmental Health ...
Research UR Medicine Tapped for Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation’s Care Center Network By Leslie White Dec. 7, 2015 UR Medicine was selected to be a part of the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Care Center Network to expand care and research into pulmonary fibrosis, also called lung scarring. UR Medicine Pulmonary ...
Research Clinical Trial Results Show New Drug is Better for CLL Patients By Leslie Orr Dec. 6, 2015 Older adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia may now have an alternative to toxic chemotherapy as their first treatment, according to a national study co-authored by a UR Medicine Wilmot Cancer ...
Research $3 Million to Fund Research on Powerful HIV Prevention Pill By URMC Communications Nov. 30, 2015 A University of Rochester School of Nursing researcher has been awarded a $3 million grant to study a promising method of preventing the spread of HIV.
Research Researchers Test a New Way to Protect People from HIV By Emily Boynton Nov. 19, 2015 The University of Rochester Medical Center is testing a new method to prevent HIV that scientists hope will boost the development of an effective vaccine for the virus, which infects approximately 2 ...
Patient Care Jones Memorial Hospital, Noyes Health Join UR Medicine By Leslie White Nov. 9, 2015 After nearly a year of planning, Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville and Noyes Health in Dansville will officially join UR Medicine. The affiliations have been approved by each organization’s ...
Research Study Sheds Light on Health Needs of Adults with Autism By Lori Barrette Nov. 5, 2015 While the spotlight of autism research generally shines on children, research at the University of Rochester Medical Center shows that adults with autism spectrum disorder are more likely to suffer ...
