Patient Care CAR T-cell Therapy: Finally, a Milestone to Celebrate By Leslie Orr Nov. 18, 2020 Maxine and Dave Wilson finish each other’s sentences. They feel blessed to have each other, given what Maxine has been through. Then, Maxine was unexpectedly diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in ...
Patient Care CAR T-cell Therapy: The Doctor is a Patient By Leslie Orr Nov. 18, 2020 Patrick Brophy, M.D., physician-in-chief at UR Medicine Golisano Children’s Hospital, says he never looked at his own medical chart. But he knew his health was declining rapidly.
Community As Coronavirus Surges, A Doctor and His Family Urge Us All to Stay Safe By Emily Boynton Nov. 16, 2020 Paritosh Prasad, M.D., has taken care of patients with COVID-19 in Strong Memorial Hospital’s intensive care unit since the start of the pandemic. He and his children share important messages with ...
Patient Care Navigating Telemedicine in Cancer Care By Lydia Fernandez Nov. 13, 2020 Telemedicine may be one of the positive legacies of the COVID crisis. At Wilmot, a team of doctors, nurses and administrative staff moved quickly to get providers and patients online. By the time the ...
Research Shingles Vaccine Shows Promise in Lymphoma Patients By Leslie Orr Nov. 10, 2020 New research gives a thumbs up to offering the shingles vaccine to lymphoma patients, who were often not eligible in the past.
Community $4.3 Million Grant Will Test a New Asthma Care Program for Teenagers in Rochester By Scott Hesel Nov. 9, 2020 The program will support teens through telehealth visits with an asthma specialist, school-based supervised therapy of preventive asthma medications, and virtual follow-up visits with a nurse asthma ...
Patient Care What are Dense Breasts? By Leslie Orr Oct. 22, 2020 Find out if you have higher-risk, dense breast tissue and talk to your doctor about additional screening.
Patient Care When Motherhood, Breast Cancer and COVID Collide: How One Local Teacher Persists Despite Challenges By Ruth Harper-Rhode Oct. 16, 2020 While every pregnancy is unpredictable, Colleen Molina had no idea the upheaval she was about to face. In February 2020, she found out she had breast cancer, mere weeks before her second child was ...
Patient Care MyChart is Getting Supercharged with a New Look and Even Faster Results By Andrea Westerlund Oct. 9, 2020 UR Medicine is launching MyChart: Immediate Release on Oct. 11, which will give patients access to more of their health information than ever before.
Research One Way to Prevent Cancer: Map the Fundamentals of How Cells Go Awry By Leslie Orr Oct. 8, 2020 Wilmot scientists focused on proteins involved in breast and brain cancer and melanoma, and made a new discovery.
