There are big expansion plans in the works for The Marketplace Mall, but they don’t include the addition of any big-box store or other retailers. Instead, the University of Rochester, the town of Henrietta and Wilmorite have announced plans for a new tenant —UR Medicine’s Orthopedics and Physical Performance Center. The 330,000-square-foot facility would include […]
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URMC artist in residence fights stigmas with portraits
Charmaine Wheatley has set up camp at the UR’s Medical Center to paint portraits of individuals from two stigmatized communities: people living with mental illness, and people living with HIV
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Researchers warn of a major Parkinson’s increase
A pandemic is typically seen as an infectious disease that spreads easily across geographic boundaries, often having a worldwide impact. Influenza and HIV are prime examples. But Dr. Ray Dorsey, a neurologist with the University of Rochester Medical Center, and Dr. Bastiaan Bloem, with Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, are warning public health […]
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Program aims to boost supply of pathologists
Medical examiners’ offices across the country are facing a shortage of forensic pathologists, the key medical investigators who perform autopsies. The Monroe County medical examiner’s office is no exception. Like other agencies across the country, it’s been dealing with an increase in autopsy cases due to the opioid epidemic and related overdose deaths, the county […]
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Surgery that’s almost real
Doctors Ahmed Ghazi and Jonathan Stone have the kind of personal synergy that lets them finish each other’s sentences. Their enthusiasm about their research, which could change the way surgeons are trained, is impossible to ignore. For the last three years, Ghazi, assistant professor in the University of Rochester’s Department of Urology, and Stone, a […]
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Opioid crisis spares no one
Sometimes, it seems as if drugs have declared a war on us. The United States has gone through a few heroin epidemics since the drug was first synthesized in the closing years of the 19th century. Crack cocaine ripped through cities in the 1980’s and 1990’s. And meth is a modern-day plague in some Southern […]
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Global health hits close to home
High rates of infant mortality and mothers dying during childbirth remain formidable problems in the developing world, where resources are limited. Roughly 150,000 women die during childbirth every year just in Sub-Saharan Africa. But two medical professionals with ties to Rochester have created a health care model that seems to counter the trend. The approach […]
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Refugee screenings miss serious problems
Rochester takes in more than 700 refugees annually from countries often devastated by wars and regional conflicts. And though the refugees are screened for mental and physical health issues, new research out of the University of Rochester shows that the screenings don’t always detect developmental delays in children because of cultural differences and communication issues. […]
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UR students serve the uninsured
About two dozen men and women fought through an early March snowstorm to get something that many people take for granted: medical care. They filed downstairs to the basement of Asbury First United Methodist Church in southeast Rochester, where the University of Rochester and church officials have set up a small health clinic. The examination […]
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Virus linked to slowed development
The congenital human herpesvirus-6 has long been associated with a wide range of conditions and illnesses. And now a researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center says that HHV-6 could play a role in slowing children’s mental development. Dr. Mary Caserta, a URMC professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases, recently completed a study showing […]
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What happened to HIV prevention?
In the more than 30 years since it began appearing in gay men in the New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles areas, HIV/AIDS has transformed from a death sentence to what is perceived by many as a manageable health condition. Still, AIDS is the second-highest killer of New Yorkers ages 25 to 44, […]
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Ebola: Not worried, but getting ready
Strong Memorial Hospital is well prepared to both identify a patient infected with the Ebola virus and to provide treatment, says Dr. Michael Kamali, chair of the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Department of Emergency Medicine. “Much of our direction is coming from both the Centers for Disease Control as well our internal folks — […]
