Research Probing New Ways to Reduce Damage from Heart Attack, Stroke By URMC Communications Feb. 14, 2010 Two Rochester scientists are among the authors of a Nature Biotechnology paper that explores new ways to screen for drugs that might be useful for a range of conditions, including cardiovascular ...
Research Behavioral Therapy Improves Sleep and Lives of Patients with Pain By URMC Communications Feb. 11, 2010 Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia significantly improved sleep for patients with chronic neck or back pain and also reduced the extent to which pain interfered with their daily functioning, ...
Research Drug Shows Promise for Huntington’s Disease By Mark Michaud Feb. 8, 2010 An early stage clinical trial of the experimental drug dimebon (latrepirdine) in people with Huntington’s disease appears to be safe and may improve cognition. That is the conclusion of a study ...
Research Gift from William and Sheila Konar Supports Clinical Research on Alzheimer’s Disease By URMC Communications Feb. 7, 2010 Clinical research into Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions that cause dementia has taken a giant leap forward at the University of Rochester Medical Center, with a major gift from a local couple ...
Community New URMC Program to Focus on Health Behaviors By Mark Michaud Feb. 7, 2010 The University of Rochester Medical Center today announced the inauguration of the Healthy Living Center. This new initiative – which is part of the Center for Community Health – will offer clinical ...
Education Breast Cancer Survivor Hosts Feb. 6 Benefit for Wilmot Research Programs By Leslie White Jan. 28, 2010 Breast cancer survivor Paula Bokman will host a fund-raiser for research at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center to help find a cure Saturday, Feb. 6, at Burgundy Basin Inn
Research Research Reveals How Blood Flow Force Protects Blood Vessels By URMC Communications Jan. 27, 2010 It is second nature for most of us that exercise protects against heart attack and stroke, but researchers have spent 30 years unraveling the biochemistry behind the idea. One answer first offered by ...
Research Researcher Elected to Leadership Team of Bone Research Society By URMC Communications Jan. 27, 2010 Brendan Boyce, M.D., professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and director of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been elected Secretary/Treasurer of the ...
Research Williams Chairs National Space Biomedical Research Institute Science Committee By Leslie White Jan. 27, 2010 Jacqueline Williams, Ph.D., was named chair of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s Scientific Advisory Committee for its Center of Acute Radiation Research. Williams is grant director ...
Research Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Using Specialized Catheter Results in Better Outcomes Compared to Drug Therapy By URMC Communications Jan. 26, 2010 A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) this week found that treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF) using a specialized catheter results in better outcomes for ...
