Patient Care Goodwill Vision Enterprises, UR Medicine Team Up to Expand Eye Care By Leslie White Feb. 1, 2023 Goodwill of the Finger Lakes and UR Medicine Flaum Eye Institute – two leaders in vision care for the Finger Lakes region – are collaborating to improve access to best-in-class vision care in the ...
Education UR Medicine Launches Tuition-Free Nursing Education Program By Gianluca D'Elia Jan. 12, 2023 To combat the region’s nursing shortage and improve access to health care careers, the UR Nursing Scholars Program will provide a tuition-free nursing education in exchange for a three-year work ...
Research Newly Discovered Anatomy Shields and Monitors Brain By Mark Michaud Jan. 5, 2023 The previously unknown component of brain anatomy, described in the journal Science, acts as both a protective barrier and platform from which immune cells scan the brain for infection and ...
Research Solar Panels for Cells: Light-Activated Proton Pumps Generate Cellular Energy, Extend Life By Mark Michaud Jan. 3, 2023 A team of U.S. and German researchers engineered mitochondria that can covert light energy to chemical energy, power cellular functions, and extend life in the roundworm C. elegans. The findings ...
Research Black Patients Less Likely to Get Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery, More Likely to Die By Susanne Pallo Dec. 20, 2022 Minimally invasive heart surgeries carry less risk and have shorter recovery times, but a new study led by URMC researchers shows that Black patients have less access to these procedures and are more ...
Patient Care Stemming the Tide: Investments in Pediatric Behavioral Health Make a Difference By Scott Hesel Dec. 16, 2022 Over the last few years, Golisano Children’s Hospital has launched new initiatives to help address behavioral health needs in the Rochester region. It has grown the Mobile Crisis Unit, opened the ...
Research New grant will use virtual reality to understand trauma and the brain By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Dec. 14, 2022 Understanding how experience and exposure to trauma changes the brain could improve diagnosis and targeted care for conditions like anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Benjamin ...
Research Meeting Them Where They Are: Research Examines Digital Interventions for Teen Suicide Prevention By Kelly Webster Dec. 7, 2022 Arielle Sheftall, Ph.D., earned $4 million from the NIH to study unconventional, digital approaches to help high-risk youth navigate difficult times.
Research Banning Fruity Flavors Did Not Deter Vapers By Susanne Pallo Nov. 30, 2022 A new study shows that most adult vapers did not quit in response to the 2020 FDA flavored e-cig ban – with most people switching to flavors or types of e-cigs not covered by the ban. Study authors ...
Research Personalized Immune Therapy Extended Survival in Patients with Aggressive Brain Cancer By Susanne Pallo Nov. 21, 2022 A phase III clinical trial of the DCVax®-L cancer vaccine, conducted at the Wilmot Cancer Institute and other centers internationally, has shown the first meaningful survival extension for patients ...
