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.
Research RIT, URMC Receive NIH Funding to Study AI-Enabled Toilet Seat Technology for Heart Failure By Leslie White Oct. 6, 2020 Toilet seats with high tech sensors might be the non-invasive technology of the future that could help reduce hospital return rates of individuals with heart disease.
Patient Care Ear and Throat Pain Led Woman to Urgent Care, Has Surgery Few Hours Later By Karen Black Oct. 5, 2020 A woman experiencing ear and throat pain first went to urgent care and ended up in surgery a few hours later.
Research Fast COVID-detecting Nasal Swab Card, Tested at URMC, Gains FDA Approval—Ideal for School Use By Bob Marcotte Sep. 23, 2020 A $5 test that detects COVID-19 from a nasal swab within 15 minutes -- and has been evaluated in a clinical trial at the University of Rochester Medical Center -- has received FDA Emergency Use ...
Research Cool Technology Allows for Better Views of Cancerous Blood Cells in Quest for New Treatment By Leslie Orr Sep. 15, 2020 The cutting-edge microscope is the first of its kind in the Rochester region, and a boon for cancer researchers such as Laura Calvi and Clara Kielkopf.
Research Phase 3 AstraZeneca Coronavirus Vaccine Study Reopens at URMC By Mark Michaud Sep. 1, 2020 The University of Rochester Medical Center is joining a phase 3 clinical trial for a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford known as AZD1222.
