Patient Care New Children’s Hospital Initiative Provides Products, Styling for All Hair Types By Scott Hesel Aug. 5, 2024 UR Medicine Golisano Children’s Hospital (GCH) has started a new initiative centered on hair equity for hospital patients and their families. This initiative will help hospital staff better serve ...
Community Annual Satcher Awards Celebrate Work Toward Community Health Improvement & Health Equity By Rebecca Youmell May. 30, 2024 Â鶹ÊÓƵ faculty and staff, as well as their community partners, were recognized today for their dedication to helping people lead healthier lives and advancing health ...
Research $13M Boosts a Growing Immunotherapy Research Project at Wilmot, Roswell Park, Kaiser Permanente By Leslie Orr Nov. 17, 2023 A collaborative clinical research project to understand racial disparities in the use of immunotherapy to treat cancer, taking place between UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute and Roswell Park ...
Research Deaf-to-Deaf Weight Loss Program Helps Participants Drop Pounds By Susanne Pallo May. 8, 2023 Shedding unwanted pounds is hard – especially if you experience language or cultural barriers to weight loss programs and social supports. Â鶹ÊÓƵclinical trial results show that a weight loss program ...
Research Black Patients Less Likely to Get Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery, More Likely to Die By Susanne Pallo Dec. 20, 2022 Minimally invasive heart surgeries carry less risk and have shorter recovery times, but a new study led by Â鶹ÊÓƵresearchers shows that Black patients have less access to these procedures and are more ...
Community Expressing Health Equity Through Art By Susanne Pallo Dec. 15, 2022 Local K-12 students showed our Office of Health Equity Research what health equity – or the lack of it – looks like to them in a recent art contest. Contest entrants and winners were honored at a ...
Research New grant will use virtual reality to understand trauma and the brain By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Dec. 14, 2022 Understanding how experience and exposure to trauma changes the brain could improve diagnosis and targeted care for conditions like anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Benjamin ...
People An Unbreakable Bond By Patrick Broadwater Jul. 8, 2022 Delores Keefer Seward ’56N and Jane Strother Hill ’56N have always been more alike than different. They both grew up in small towns and spent significant periods of their lives on family-owned farms ...
Education First Graduate of New PhD Curriculum is Motivated to Impact Cancer Patients By Leslie Orr Jun. 1, 2022 During this graduation season, here's some nice "firsts" — Carlos Ortiz-Bonilla, Ph.D., is the first to complete a new cancer biology concentration and the first in his family to earn an advanced ...
Research Diverse minds and determined hearts make change: Forging equitability in Neuroscience By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Apr. 25, 2022 The Neuroscience Diversity Commission has a simple but powerful purpose – to fundamentally change the bench. The group was formed in 2020 and has been meeting bi-weekly since. Made up of mostly ...
