Conwell Named to National Health Care Innovations Program Yeates Conwell, M.D., professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been selected for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Innovation Advisors Program. Yeates Conwell, M.D. The initiative, launched by the CMS Innovation Center in October, will help health professionals enhance skills that […]

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Study Finds Key to Drug Resistance Sophisticated “targeted” drug therapies are improving cancer care by selectively shutting down abnormal growth switches in tumor cells while avoiding toxicity to normal tissues. In some cases, though, tumors that are initially sensitive to these drugs first regress but then activate different, “backup” genetic signals that enable them to […]

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Final health IT innovators win funding for cancer treatment apps Innovative winners of an HHS public data and cancer challenge have created health IT applications that use public data and existing technology to help patients and health care professionals prevent, detect, diagnose and treat cancer. The two winners presented their submissions during a special symposium […]

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New Habits Give Father a Fresh, Healthy Start Jose Burgos has started the New Year 15 pounds lighter. It’s not the dramatic stuff of daytime talk shows, but the URMC staffer and father of five said shedding those pounds was monumental, jump-starting a health revolution that’s shaken up his daily routine. When he’s not busy feeding […]

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New chief of UN’s food and agriculture agency outlines plans as he starts work FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva The new head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has begun work, pledging today to increase the agency’s support to poor countries experiencing prolonged food crises. “Ending hunger requires the commitment of […]

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Can Brown Rice Slow the Spread of Type 2 Diabetes? The worldwide spike in type 2 diabetes in recent decades has paralleled a shift in diets away from staple foods rich in whole grains to highly refined carbohydrates, such as white rice and refined flours. Now, a group of researchers at Harvard School of Public […]

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Head of UN food agency to step down after five years of service WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that she will step down after five years at the helm of the Rome-based agency. During her mandate as Executive Director of WFP, Josette Sheeran […]

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Ban stresses ‘people power’ and partnerships at start of second term as UN chief Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) sits for an interview with the UN News Centre and UN Radio … United Nations, New York, 3 January 2012 – Ban Ki-moon has begun his second term as Secretary-General of the United Nations by pledging to […]

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Maternal Liver Grafts More Tolerable for Children with Rare Disease Results may have important implications for counseling parents on organ donation Children with a rare, life-threatening disease that is the most common cause of neonatal liver failure – biliary atresia – better tolerate liver transplants from their mothers than from their fathers, according to a UCSF-led study. […]

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URMC Ortho Chair Addresses Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis … Regis J. O’Keefe, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the URMC Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, discusses concerns regarding the use of bisphosphonates for patients with osteoporosis. … Regis J. O’Keefe, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the URMC Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, discusses concerns regarding the use of bisphosphonates […]

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