Diversity and Disparities in Medicine Topic of First Tana Grady-Weliky Lecture Annelle B. Primm, M.D., M.P.H., deputy medical director and director of the Office of Minority and National Affairs for the American Psychiatric Association (APA), will deliver the first annual Tana A. Grady-Weliky, M.D., Memorial Lecture Friday, Feb. 10, at the University of Rochester Medical […]

Local IHOP Restaurants Flip to Help the Kids Rochester IHOPs whip up two ways to help Golisano Children’s Hospital this winter The only thing better than free pancakes are free pancakes for a good cause. On Wednesday, Jan. 25, the Rochester IHOP restaurants will be holding a special promotion to provide free kids’ meals, from 7 a.m. […]

Medical Center Board Bestows Patient Care Awards on Top Staff Six Individuals, Four Teams, Spotlighted for Stellar Service This week, during the University of Rochester Medical Center Board’s annual meeting, Board Chair Bob Latella presented the 2011 Excellence Awards to some of the institution’s most exceptional employees. Altogether, six individuals and four teams were spotlighted […]

Golisano Foundation and Eastman Institute Partner to Help People with Developmental Disabilities The B. Thomas Golisano Foundation and Eastman Institute for Oral Health at the University of Rochester Medical Center today announced a partnership to address the unmet oral health needs of people with developmental disabilities in the Rochester area.  While it is widely known that there is a […]

Gladstone Scientists Identify Genetic Mechanism Linked to Congenital Heart Disease Scientific Discovery Sheds Light on Fundamental Biological Process Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have identified a finely tuned mechanism by which fetal heart muscle develops into a healthy and fully formed beating heart—offering new insight into the genetic causes of congenital heart disease and opening […]

Claude Steele to deliver Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Claude Steele/ The I. James Quillen Dean of the School of Education at Stanford University Noted author and scholar Claude Steele will deliver the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at Brown University on Feb. 1, 2012. His talk, titled “Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How […]

UCSF Shares $25-Million Grant To Find Epilepsy Genes UCSF-Led Study to Sequence DNA Rrom 4,000 People with Epilepsy To probe the genetic secrets of one of the most common neurological diseases, more than 4,000 people with various forms of epilepsy will have their DNA decoded over the next five years in a study led by […]

A winter wellness workout. Program gives undergrads tools for fit, healthy living. The Optimal Health program held over Wintersession brought Elizabeth Frates ’90, the director of medical student education at Boston’s Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, to the Fong Auditorium. Frates had students fill out a wellness wheel and rank on a scale of 1 to […]

Team Finds New Way to Image Brain Tumors and Predict Recurrence UCSF Team Develops Methods That May Help Predict Tumor Progression and Improve Treatment Follow-up After people with low-grade glioma, a type of brain cancer, undergo neurosurgery to remove the tumors, they face variable odds of survival — depending largely on how rapidly the cancer […]

Big Tobacco led throat doctors to blow smoke Tobacco companies conducted a carefully crafted, decades-long campaign to manipulate throat doctors into helping to calm concerns among an increasingly worried public that smoking might be bad for their health, according to a new study by researchers at the School of Medicine. Beginning in the 1920s, this campaign […]