Traumatic injury sets off a ‘genomic storm’ New research overturns longstanding assumption “Burn patients may take months to years to recover from their injuries, while trauma patients who are going to recover usually do so within a month. So it was entirely unexpected that gene expression patterns in burns and trauma patients changed in exactly [...]

Key Hearing Proteins Identified Researchers have found what appear to be 2 key components of the long-sought-after mechanotransduction channel in the inner ear—the place where sound waves are transformed into the electrical signals that the brain recognizes as sound. Sensory cells in the inner ear called hair cells are crucial for transforming sound into electrical [...]

Syracuse Woman Raises Awareness of Joining Organ Donor Registry Resident Waits for New Heart at Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital Carol Kankoski misses the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping, the music and the decorations. Tethered to monitors and machines during this season of giving, the Syracuse-area woman awaits the ultimate gift – a heart – [...]

Wood Cooking Stoves Combat Pneumonia A new study found that wood-burning cooking stoves with chimneys lowered exposure to wood smoke from open cooking fires and reduced the rate of severe pneumonia by 30% in children less than 18 months of age. Childhood deaths from pneumonia are relatively uncommon in the United States. But the disease [...]

Nursing Professor and Researcher Gail Ingersoll Dies at Age 62 Leaves a Legacy of Advancements in Patient Care Delivery Gail L. Ingersoll, EdD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, director of Clinical Nursing Research at Strong Memorial Hospital, and the Loretta C. Ford Professor of Nursing at the School of Nursing, died on December 5, 2011 after a battle [...]

Targeted Light Therapy Destroys Cancer Cells Scientists have developed a noninvasive technique that uses light to selectively wipe out cancerous cells in mice without harming surrounding tissue. With further research, this novel method might eventually be used to treat tumors in humans. A cluster of breast cancer cells. (Image by Annie Cavanagh. All rights reserved by [...]

Regeneration of specialized cells offers hope for treating chronic kidney disease, researchers say Damage to podocytes — a specialized type of epithelial cell in the kidney — occurs in more than 90 percent of all chronic kidney disease. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have uncovered an unexpected pathway that reveals for the first [...]

Plotting the demise of AIDS Scientists, doctors, and activists note progress, calibrate challenges Photo by Aubrey LaMedica/ HSPH / A two-day conference titled “AIDS@30: Engaging to End the Epidemic,” which drew hundreds to the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, worked to engage those who know the ailment best to plot its end. The Dec. 1 [...]

URMC Researchers Receive $2.6M Grant to Help Young Smokers Quit Department of Community and Preventive Medicine provides support for smoking cessation Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Department of Community and Preventive Medicine are using a National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant to find effective ways to help young smokers quit. They have been awarded [...]

Haas Chosen to Lead National Pharmacy Organization Currently President-Elect, Will Advance to President in 2012 Curtis Haas, Pharm.D., director of Pharmacy for the University of Rochester Medical Center, was selected as president-elect of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and will advance to the office of president in October 2012. Haas, who joined URMC [...]