Health & Science
Ortho continues key role in COVID fight
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The company, which has roughly 1,200 employees here, recently won a $53.7 million federal contract to boost its antigen and antibody test efforts.
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Sharp increase in STIs prompts call for action
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A new report from ACT Rochester and Trillium Health highlights a health crisis obscured by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Why declaring victory over COVID now is risky
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In the 1918 influenza outbreak, Rochester responded quickly and effectively. But after the restrictions were lifted, more people got sick and died of the flu than during the height of the pandemic.
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A bid to boost COVID vaccinations
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Common Ground Health has launched a speakers bureau to combat misconceptions and ensure that everyone eligible to be vaccinated gets a shot.
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Local study team buoyed by Oxford-AstraZeneca data
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Interim results for the AZD-1222 vaccine clinical trial, which included more than 850 volunteers at URMC, showed zero COVID-19 hospitalizations or death.
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A journal of the pandemic year
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It has been 12 months since Monroe County recorded its first COVID case and death. Looking back, the pandemic in some ways seems like a mystery—but in others, a tragedy foretold.
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RRH CEO to retire in July
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Eric Bieber has led the area’s second-largest employer since shortly after the 2014 merger of Unity Health System and Rochester General Health System.
GUEST OPINION
The power of science
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The past year has illustrated that sound strategy, scientific methodology, and communicating research findings in a clear manner can help save lives.
Health & Science
Battling multiple challenges
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Over the last year, New York’s nursing homes have become the focus of controversy, with questions centering on number of resident deaths from COVID-19. Keeping residents safe, however, is only one difficulty these organizations face.
Development
UR’s ambulatory orthopaedic campus to open in 2022
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The $240 million project will be housed at the Marketplace Mall in Henrietta. It will be three times the size of UR Medicine’s orthopaedic outpatient clinic at Clinton Crossings.