Patient Care No Meat, Dairy, Added Sugar, or Processed Foods: Will it Help Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients? By Lydia Fernandez Oct. 8, 2018 Thomas Campbell, M.D., a worldwide bestselling author and authority on nutrition and a family physician at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is conducting an eight-week pilot study among ...
Patient Care Q and A: Breast Cancer Screening By Lori Barrette Oct. 3, 2018 It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which annually sheds light on the importance of early detection. UR Medicine women's imaging specialist Dr. Avice O'Connell answers a few questions women commonly ...
Community $1.8M Grant Supports Life-Changing Cancer Services Across the Finger Lakes Region By Karin Gaffney Christensen Oct. 1, 2018 The URMC Center for Community Health and Prevention will use the state funding to expand its Cancer Services Program of Monroe County to the surrounding of Seneca, Yates, Wayne, Ontario and ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Unveils Upstate New York’s First Mobile Stroke Unit By Mark Michaud Sep. 27, 2018 Next month, UR Medicine will begin operation of a Mobile Stroke Unit, a high-tech ‘emergency room on wheels’ that is designed to provide life-saving care to stroke victims. The $1 million unit will ...
Research Researchers Glimpse into ‘Real World’ of Cancer and Financial Hardship By Leslie Orr Sep. 26, 2018 Nearly one in five older patients with advanced cancer have financial problems that may cause them to delay treatment to cover food and housing costs, which leads to stress and poor quality of life, ...
Patient Care Slice of History: Friends of Strong Celebrates $1 Million Milestone, Efforts to Enhance Patient Care By Matt Ulakovic Sep. 25, 2018 For the first time ever, Friends of Strong gave $1 million to support patient care programs throughout Strong Memorial Hospital in a single year—breaking all previous funding records for the ...
Patient Care Scientists Uncover Valuable Gene Activity for Precancerous Cysts, Cancer in Pancreas By Leslie Orr Sep. 24, 2018 A Wilmot Cancer Institute study revealed the actions of a key gene and its surrounding network that causes cysts in the pancreas, as well as how cancer arises from the cysts. The work could someday ...
Research Common Painkiller Not Effective for Traumatic Nerve Injury By Mark Michaud Sep. 24, 2018 A new study out today in the Journal of Neurology finds that pregabalin is not effective in controlling the chronic pain that sometimes develops following traumatic nerve injury. The results of the ...
Education Picking Peas to Patient Care By Patrick Broadwater Sep. 18, 2018 In early 1952, three nursing students from the University of Rochester were selected for an overseas trip to assist Europe with its massive post-war rehabilitation. Sponsored by the National Student ...
Patient Care Harbor House Home-Away-From-Home Benefit is Sept. 29 By Leslie White Sep. 18, 2018 Rochester’s home-away-from-home for seriously ill patients will get a boost from the community during the “And the Beat Goes On…” benefit dinner for Harbor House of Rochester.
