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Fifty years ago, the University of Rochester established its cancer center, around the time the nation's view of the disease began to change. Today, cancer research and treatment is in its most ...

Born at 22 weeks, before her body could fully develop and function on its own, Isabel Vazquez-Mercado beat all odds and overcame all the challenges associated with her extreme prematurity.

The UR Medicine MSU, which brings the expertise and technology necessary to diagnose and treat stroke directly to the patient, has extended services and now operates seven days a week.

Summer is just around the corner, and as nature undergoes its seasonal transformation, it prompts us also to consider our own beauty reawakening. Now is the perfect time to refresh your spring ...

Many women believe in the importance of doing monthly self-exams of their breasts. Yet 15 years ago, the American Cancer Society recommended against teaching self-breast exams.

Highland Hospital is honoring Chin-Lin Ching, M.D., as Physician of the Year, and Rachel A. James, M.S., R.N., AGPCNP-BC, as Advanced Practice Provider (APP) of the year.

At a time when trauma wasn’t considered a cause for troubled teen behavior, this psychiatrist knew better. Her groundbreaking work on trauma and the brain has changed minds and improved the lives of ...

From Argentina to Zambia, global research by Â鶹ÊÓƵ physician-scientists is helping to fight disease—but surprisingly helping right here at home as well.

The field of RNA biology has catapulted to the forefront of health and medicine over the past decade as the work of scientists like Lynne E. Maquat, PhD, director of the University of Rochester ...

Â鶹ÊÓƵ is first in the nation to earn the elite Age-Friendly Health System Committed to Care Excellence status for its Center for Perioperative Medicine (CPM.) It is ...