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Doctors Offer 1st Patient Care Guidelines for Challenging Blood Clots Rochester expert gives advice to physicians caring for patients at high risk of death Pulmonologists, hematologists, cardiologists and vascular surgeons have come together with the American Heart Association today to publish the first guidelines for treatment of unusual but life-threatening venous thromboembolism (blood clots) and [...]
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Comprehensive Breast Care Center Receives Accreditation From American College of Surgeons Becomes the region’s only breast care center accredited by the ACS The Comprehensive Breast Care Center (CBCC) at the James. P. Wilmot Cancer Center, and the Highland Breast Imaging Center at Red Creek have been granted a three-year/full accreditation designation by the National Accreditation [...]
Mutant prions help cells foil harmful protein misfolding Misfolded proteins are implicated in many incurable neurological diseases. A new and improved understanding of how naturally occurring variants keep proteins from bunching up and spreading provides more options for developing a treatment than scientists had realized. Mutant prions help cells The red color of the the [...]
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Could mutant flies give epilepsy sufferers greater peace of mind? A new NIH grant will allow biologist Robert Reenan the opportunity to study the genetics of epilepsy using an unusual method. His goal is to discover mutations that suppress seizures. People typically regard these as the same thing, but biology Professor Robert Reenan needed an [...]
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Scientists Find a Key to Maintaining Our DNA Provides New Clues in Quest to Slow Aging DNA contains all of the genetic instructions that make us who we are, and maintaining the integrity of our DNA over the course of a lifetime is a critical, yet complex part of the aging process. In an important, [...]
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UR Technology to Enhance Eyesight Approved by FDA Patients at Flaum Eye Institute Were First to Benefit from Latest March 16, 2011 A technology created by University of Rochester physicians and scientists that has helped boost the eyesight of patients to unprecedented levels is now more widely available, thanks to approval by the [...]
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Kennedy named visiting fellow at Brown Institute for Brain Science Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy has accepted a two-year appointment as a visiting fellow at the Brown Institute for Brain Science, through the 2012-13 academic year. Kennedy will deliver two lectures each year and will continue his longtime advocacy for neurological research, wider access to [...]
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Nursing home boom in China has little government involvement A new study of the growth and operation of nursing homes in Chinese cities finds that the industry, while still small, is surging to meet the country’s overwhelming shift toward an older population. The almost entirely private-sector growth has far outpaced government oversight. A rapidly growing [...]
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American Sign Language Makes Debut in CDC Scientific Journal Thanks to a group of deaf and hearing Rochester, N.Y., pioneers, a medical journal for the first time has served up a scientific article online with a new twist: an accompanying web video in American Sign Language (ASL), produced by the University of Rochester Medical [...]
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Brown biologist Casey Dunn wins NSF’s Waterman Award Biologist Casey Dunn, creator of the “Creaturecast” website, is this year’s winner of the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award. Dunn’s work on animal evolution and the origins of biological complexity, particularly with deep-sea creatures called siphonophores, holds clues for how complex multicellular organisms, including humans, [...]
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