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Ruth A. Lawrence, M.D., professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been awarded the 2009 Martha May Eliot Award by the American Public ...

Scientists are looking for 80 healthy people in the Rochester area to take part in studies of the same H1N1 vaccine that is currently being administered mainly to people at high risk and to health ...

Three quarters of cancer patients and survivors treated with chemotherapy suffer insomnia or sleep disorders that often become chronic conditions, hindering patients’ ability to fully recover, ...

To spark students’ interest in the study of biomedical science and encourage future generations of researchers, the University of Rochester Medical Center’s (URMC) Life Science Learning Center (LSLC) ...

A dozen 18- to 21-year-olds with developmental disabilities are in internships around the University of Rochester Medical Center, learning skills in office, clinical and customer service settings, ...

Patients affected by lupus, along with their families and friends, are invited to the University of Rochester Medical Center’s free patient education day on Saturday, Dec.5.

Smokers are encouraged to try to quit on Thursday, Nov. 19, as part of the Great American Smoke Out. The annual event is organized by the American Cancer Society, in an effort to reduce cancers ...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry $700,000 to support a new program to train graduate students for a biomedical ...

A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers’ prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center has embarked on a plan to add at least 30 adult inpatient beds above its James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, a move that will address the critical shortage of ...