Tag: children

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On a quiet Sunday morning in August 2023, Craig and Amy Calvert were sitting at their kitchen table when the phone rang. The screen said “Penn,” their 15-year-old son’s name. He had stayed home from ...

Taking a daily aspirin was long touted as a simple way to stave off a heart attack or stroke, but recent evidence suggests that the risks of daily aspirin outweigh the benefits for people over 60 and ...

Only about 1 in 6 historically marginalized children with uncontrolled asthma in a Rochester, New York-based study saw an asthma specialist in the past year, despite clinical guidance recommending ...

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Children who grow up in farming communities have long been known to develop far fewer allergies than their urban peers. A new study from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), offers one ...

“I thought someone had a heart attack and maybe needed CPR. I came to the scene to find a girl had been struck by lightning. Another person had started pressing on her chest…he said he really didn’t ...

The new study shows sharp increases in hospitalizations, bed days, and costs for children with complex chronic conditions, care that is increasingly concentrated in urban teaching children’s ...

Researchers from the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester have found that male and female brains show different responses as Batten disease progresses and have found a ...

Inna Hughes, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, has been appointed Interim Chief of Child Neurology at Golisano Children’s Hospital. A member of the URMC community since 2007, ...