Tag: health care professionals

Despite the changes that have occurred in medicine in recent decades, connection remains a key part of oncology nursing. What is it really like to be an oncology nurse? Three of our nurses shared ...

Shedding unwanted pounds is hard – especially if you experience language or cultural barriers to weight loss programs and social supports. URMC clinical trial results show that a weight loss program ...

Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester continue to find evidence that the brain’s immune system may not be the culprit behind fetal alcohol spectrum ...

Four URMC faculty and two staff members were honored at the May 2 ceremony following a keynote address by the award’s namesake, David Satcher, MD, PhD, an internationally renowned champion of public ...

Commercially available smartphones and watches, like the Apple Watch, are able to capture key features of early, untreated Parkinson’s disease.

Life-extending immunotherapies, like CAR T-cell cancer therapy, sometimes migrate to places they shouldn’t go. A Wilmot team discovered the molecule that guides T cells toward tumors, setting the ...

Hundreds of tons of demolished brick building recently came down on Elmwood Avenue, but you wouldn't know it from looking at the flat area now. Ever wonder where all of that debris goes? Thanks to a ...

Polypharmacy is a buzz word for the use of multiple medications. A Wilmot Cancer Institute study shows it can have serious consequences for older adults with cancer.

UR Medicine opens the region's first ambulatory surgery center dedicated to orthopaedic procedures, part of a multi-year, $227 million project to build one of the nation's largest campuses for ...

Anna Weiss, MD, recently joined Wilmot Cancer Institute as a breast cancer surgeon and director of the Breast Cancer Service Line. A Syracuse native, she shares her vision for Wilmot's Breast Care ...