URMC Leads Push for New Approaches to Brain Injury In the race to more accurately diagnose the severity of head injuries quickly and without a CT scan, a University of Rochester Medical Center expert has a leading role in two nationwide studies that are launching this spring. The first project involves testing a small, hand-held […]

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Smoke-exposed Children with Flu More Likely to Need ICU Care Exposed children with flu also stay in the hospital longer Children who are exposed to secondhand smoke are more likely to need intensive care and intubation when hospitalized with influenza, according to new research by the University of Rochester Medical Center presented today at the […]

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Golisano Children’s Hospital Clinician-Researcher Wins AHA Award The American Heart Association named local volunteer Stephen Cook, M.D., M.P.H. “Science Advocate of the Year.” The award was presented at the association’s annual Congressional Lobby Day,in Washington, D.C. on Monday, April 11, 2011. Stephen Cook, M.D., M.P.H. “Dr. Cook is passionate about ending childhood obesity and has […]

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