Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/category/health-science/page/2/)
A new RIT study of 2018 opioid overdoses in Monroe County details the scope—and deadliness—of this public health crisis. Opioid fatalities surpass deaths from many types of common cancers, and even car accidents.
The team’s discovery could increase the longer-term effectiveness of a drug used to treat late-stage prostate cancer.
The behavior alleged in the recent civil and criminal actions brought against Rochester Drug Co-operative and other opioid distributors and manufacturers is reprehensible. But they are not the only ones responsible for the explosive, deadly growth in the supply of the addictive drugs.
Physician organizations at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Syracuse’s St. Joseph’s Health have formed Concordia, an alliance to pursue value-based care. Will it be able to amplify the cost-saving and health benefits, that this approach aims to bring, to individual members?
The unreimbursed burden of new paperwork for therapists has led to long waiting lists for children needing speech, occupational or physical therapy.
The University of Rochester Medical Center is part of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, the largest long-term study of brain development and child health ever undertaken in the United States.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it’s time for New York to legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana. Making it happen, though, will require dealing with some thorny issues.
UR Medicine and Rochester Regional Health recently kicked off programs to give patients access to some of their doctors’ clinical notes. Will the move create challenges?
On Dec. 14 a Texas judge declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. In New York, the New York State of Heath insurance exchange reported gains in enrollment.
Is an alternative payment scheme designed to cut costs and improve care inadvertently shortchanging minorities and poorer patients? A URMC researcher aims to find out.