Research Practice Makes Perfect -- Fake Organs Guide the Way for 'Impossible' Cancer Surgery By Mark Michaud Jun. 5, 2018 URMC urologist Ahmed Ghazi, M.D., builds exact replicas of patients' organs – complete with their specific tumors – to practice complex, time-sensitive surgery long before the patient is in the ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Uses ‘Bionic Eye’ to Restore Some Vision to Blind Syracuse Woman By Leslie White Oct. 23, 2017 A 71-year-old woman blinded by an inherited disease recently thrilled University of Rochester doctors by reaching out and grabbing her ophthalmologist’s hand after receiving a “bionic eye.” The ...
Research Voices of Patients and Oncologists Must be Heard, Study Says By Leslie Orr Sep. 8, 2016 Specifically training oncologists and their patients to have high-quality discussions improves communication, but troubling gaps still exist between the two groups, according to a new study in JAMA ...
