Altruism Takes a Front Seat at Drive for Miracles Radiothon Golisano Children’s Hospital Fundraiser Set for Weekend before Valentine’s Day Altruism Takes a Front Seat at Drive for Miracles Radiothon Golisano Children’s Hospital Fundraiser Set for Weekend before Valentine’s Day Altruism Takes a Front Seat at Drive for Miracles Radiothon This Valentine’s Day season, Golisano […]

Surveys show significant proportions of hospitals and doctors already plan to adopt electronic health records and qualify for federal incentive payments Four-fifths of the nation’s hospitals, and 41 percent of office-based physicians, currently intend to take advantage of federal incentive payments for adoption and meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR) technology, according to […]

Proposed Changes Will Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Children Nationwide and Help Address Childhood Obesity Crisis. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2010 —The U.S. Department of Agriculture today published a proposed rule to update the nutrition standards for meals served through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids […]

University of Rochester, RIT, Tackle Need for Health IT Professionals Universities combine strengths to offer first joint degree The University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have joined forces to bolster two crucial elements of health care reform in the United States—the widespread application of information technology to health care and the adoption of […]

HHS increases total LIHEAP funding available to help low-income families to $3.9 billion Today U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of additional funding to help eligible low-income families meet their home energy needs, bringing the total made available since October 1 to $3.9 billion.  These funds will go […]

Cancer costs projected to reach at least $158 billion in 2020 New NIH study projects survivorship and costs of cancer care based on changes in the US population and cancer trends Based on growth and aging of the U.S. population, medical expenditures for cancer in the year 2020 are projected to reach at least $158 […]

Michael F. Kamali Named Chair of URMC Emergency Medicine Michael F. Kamali, M.D., associate professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, has been named chair of the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Department of Emergency Medicine after a 10-month national search. Kamali has been a faculty member at URMC for more than 10 years, serving in […]

MMR Vaccines and Autism: Holding Science to Higher Standards as We Go Forward Since last week, media outlets have swarmed around allegations of faked data in the landmark 1998 study considered by many to have launched the decade-long autism-vaccine controversy. In light of this latest turn (you can read more about it, here), we spoke to autism […]

CCNY Science Dean Ruth Stark Named AAAS Fellow   Dr. Ruth Stark, acting dean of science, The City College of New York, and director, CUNY Institute for Macromolecular Assemblies.   Dr. Ruth Stark, acting dean of science at The City College of New York, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the […]

Industry Scientists to Discuss Drug Discovery Challenges, Successes January 11, 2011 Several industry scientists who have been instrumental in discovering new drugs and vaccines will visit the Medical Center this semester as part of a new course on drug discovery. The class is being offered through the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and has a […]