Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How to be happier in 2021
So you want to look trimmer, be smarter, and successful next year? You strive to exercise and call your friends more, and spend less?
Dec 21, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
What makes a happy couple, a happy family?
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Leo Tolstoy wrote famously in 1878 in the opening lines of Anna Karenina. Turns out the Russian author was onto something.
Nov 25, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Quick COVID-detecting nasal swab card is approved for use
A $5 test that detects COVID-19 from a nasal swab within 15 minutes—and has been evaluated in a clinical trial at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)—has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization for use ...
Sep 24, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Feeling frisky makes you see what you want to see
There's something to rose-tinted glasses after all.
Sep 23, 2020
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Health
New database shows more than 20% of nursing homes still report staff, PPE shortages
Nearly half of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States have occurred among nursing home residents, whose age, chronic medical conditions, and congregate living quarters place them and their caregivers at high risk of contracting ...
Aug 20, 2020
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Neuroscience
'Time is vision' after a stroke
A person who has a stroke that causes vision loss is often told there is nothing she can do to improve or regain the vision she has lost. New research from the University of Rochester, published in the journal Brain, may ...
May 22, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Reading your partner's emotions—when it helps, and when it hurts
Are you good at reading your partner's emotions? Your perceptiveness may very well strengthen your relationship. Yet when anger or contempt enter the fray, little is to be gained and the quality of your relationship tanks, ...
May 21, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mathematical model will monitor spread of COVID-19
University of Rochester researchers are using their expertise in mathematical modeling to help answer one of the biggest questions surrounding the pandemic and quarantine: When is this going to end?
May 21, 2020
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Medical research
Ventilators: Three centuries in the making
From bed-sized iron lungs to portable, computer-controlled systems, the ventilators used to treat life-threatening respiratory diseases—and so much in demand today—have had a 'remarkable journey."
Apr 17, 2020
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Pediatrics
First mobile app for caregivers of children with FASD reaches trial stage
In the summer of 2017, Christie Petrenko, an assistant professor and research associate at the University of Rochester's Mt. Hope Family Center, and Cristiano Tapparello, a research assistant professor in the University's ...
Apr 8, 2020
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