Health & Science
New hope for extremely preterm infants
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A study co-authored by a UR researcher shows an increase in survival rates of infants born between 22 and 28 weeks.
Health & Science
Strong Memorial to undergo major expansion
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The project will triple the size of its emergency department and add more than 100 new, private inpatient rooms. In total, the project is expected to cost $641 million.
Health & Science
COVID-19 offers opportunity amid crisis
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The pandemic has stressed health care systems but some good has come out of it, says Rochester Regional Health Chief Medical Officer Robert Mayo M.D.
Health & Science
URMC gets $10 million to tackle autoimmune diseases
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The National Institutes of Health grant funds the University of Rochester Medical Center’s role in a network that examines therapies for autoimmune diseases. The local team will lead work on rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis.
Health & Science
Wastewater serves as reliable surveillance tool for COVID-19
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The technique has been adopted by area universities and counties statewide.
Health & Science
Air Force medical teams deployed to Strong Memorial
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The teams are part of a wider federal effort to relieve overburdened medical staff straining under the burden of COVID-19 cases.
Health & Science
A deaf physician grapples with the pandemic
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For family practitioner Carolyn Stern, COVID-19 has created unprecedented communications difficulties.
Economy & Business
Casana raises another $30 million
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The health care technology firm now has garnered $46 million in total capital, to speed development and commercialization of its cuffless blood pressure monitor built into the toilet seat.
Health & Science
New Nurse Navigation System aims to aid EMS
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Calls that are not life-threatening will go to a nurse rather than an emergency room.
Health & Science
A grassroots mental health strategy
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To counter a shortage of mental health and addiction counselors, RIT’s Caroline Easton launched a program to recruit the “best of the best interns” from across the U.S.