Patient Care Breast Density: What Women Should Know By Lori Barrette Oct. 12, 2015 Especially during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you may hear the term "dense breasts" in the media and you may wonder what it means and if it's something you should worry about. Dr. Avice O'Connell, ...
Patient Care Free mammograms available Oct. 10 and 17 for uninsured women By Ruth Harper-Rhode Oct. 6, 2015 UR Medicine Breast Imaging at Red Creek and at Strong West have teamed up with the Cancer Services Program of Monroe County to offer free mammograms to uninsured or underinsured women age 40 or older ...
Patient Care Patients Prefer Relief from Lower Back Pain Over Improved Mobility By Mark Michaud Sep. 9, 2015 A new study out today in the journal Neurology examines the question of quality of life for individuals with a common form of lower back pain called lumbar spinal stenosis. The findings show that, ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Building New Site for Outpatient Imaging, Autism Care By Leslie White Aug. 17, 2015 UR Medicine leaders will today break ground on a new building that will house a state-of-the-art outpatient Imaging Center, as well as the region’s first stand-alone clinic to integrate care of ...
New imaging machines designed to take kids to the open seas By URMC Communications Jul. 1, 2015 When the new Golisano Children's Hospital opens in July it will feature great new technology in a dedicated pediatric imaging suite, with a new PET/MRI, CT scan, family waiting area, and more. The ...
Research URMC Mourns Loss of Former Radiology Chair Robert O’Mara By Leslie White May. 12, 2015 Robert E. O’Mara, M.D., former chair of Radiology, as it was known then, and chief of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, died April 26, at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Heart Team Uses 3D Printing to Save Woman’s Life By Leslie White Mar. 31, 2015 A constellation of technological advances helped UR Medicine-led heart specialists save the life of an aging Brighton woman. They used a three-dimensional (3D) print of her heart along with a ...
Research Decades of Research Yields FDA-Approved Imaging Technology By URMC Communications Feb. 5, 2015 A 3D imaging system for diagnosing breast cancer that was invented at the URMC received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Research Another URMC Milestone: FDA Approves High-Tech Breast Imaging System By Leslie Orr Feb. 4, 2015 After more than a decade of development and data-gathering -- including breast scans on nearly 700 women and 79 patents issued -- the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a breast-cancer ...
Research Blood Test for Brain Injury May Not Be Feasible By Mark Michaud Jan. 13, 2015 Complications involving the brain’s unique waste removal system – the existence of which has only recently been brought to light – may thwart efforts to identify biomarkers that detect traumatic ...
