Patient Care Dermatologists to Offer Free Skin Cancer Screening May 7 By Lori Barrette Apr. 14, 2016 UR Medicine’s Department of Dermatology is joining forces with the American Academy of Dermatology and the Rochester Dermatologic Society to provide free skin cancer screenings 9 a.m. to noon ...
Patient Care Nominate a Cancer Survivor to be Honored at the Wilmot Warrior Walk By Ruth Harper-Rhode Apr. 14, 2016 UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute is accepting nominations of cancer survivors and caregivers for its fourth annual Wilmot Warrior Walk, which celebrates life beyond cancer. This year’s walk will ...
Patient Care Wilmot Patient Grateful for Clinical Study, Recovering at Home By Leslie Orr Apr. 12, 2016 Ed Foster, the first patient to participate in a national clinical trial of a new immunotherapy for lymphoma at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, is healthy enough to be home in Elmira.
Patient Care Could an Apple a Day Keep Heart Disease Away? By Lori Barrette Apr. 11, 2016 If you need another reason to put produce on your plate, a new study shows that eating more fruit may reduce your risk of major heart disease. UR Medicine nutrition expert Dr. Thomas Campbell ...
People Nuclear Medicine Physicist, UR Alum David A. Weber, Ph.D., Dies By Leslie White Apr. 11, 2016 Nuclear medicine physicist David A. Weber, Ph.D., who worked at University of Rochester Medical Center from 1970 to 1987, died at his Pittsford home March 31. He was 77.
Research Immune-stimulating Drug, with Chemo, Shrinks Pancreas Tumors By Leslie Orr Apr. 4, 2016 The results of an early (phase 1b) clinical trial for pancreatic cancer show that an experimental therapy can control tumors well enough to make some patients eligible for surgery, according to data ...
