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Study Reveals Chemo’s Toxicity to Brain
Grant to Solidify Health Care Model for Foster Children
Researchers Identify Elderly at Risk for Depression
Gallery Store Open Monday for Holiday Hours
Kodak Hall Plays Host to RPO Holiday Concert

News and Announcements

Study Reveals Chemo’s Toxicity to Brain
Medical Center researchers have developed a novel animal model showing that four commonly used chemotherapy drugs disrupt the birth of new brain cells, and that the condition could be partially reversed with an insulin-like growth factor.
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Grant to Solidify Health Care Model for Foster Children
The New York State Health Foundation has awarded a $300,000 grant to the Medical Center to implement and compare a new enhanced model of care, called Starlight Pediatrics, for managing health issues for children in foster care.
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Researchers Identify Elderly at Risk for Depression
Medical Center researchers have pinpointed the prime factors identifying which elderly persons are at the highest risk for developing major depression.
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Gallery Store Open Monday for Holiday Hours
The Memorial Art Gallery will be closed Monday, Dec. 21, but the Gallery Store will be open for special holiday hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Kodak Hall Plays Host to RPO Holiday Concert
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Jeff Tyzik will present a series of gala Holiday Pops! concerts at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre beginning tonight at 8 p.m. Concerts will also be held at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20. For more information and to purchase tickets, go to the RPO Web site.

Dec. 18, 2009

Today's Forecast:
Partly Cloudy, High 26°
Tomorrow:
Cloudy, High 25°

Today's Event Highlight
Annual Rainbow Classic
Palestra, Goergen Athletic Center. 6 p.m. Read more…

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Rochester in the News
City Newspaper (Dec. 16)
'State of Emergency: The Disappearing Primary-Care Doctor'
"The thing that will suffer most with a worsening physician shortage," says Wallace Johnson, associate professor of medicine, "is the comprehensive care of chronic medical conditions that really lead to early mortality, to lots of suffering, and to the high costs that have plagued the American health-care system over the last decade." Read more…

In Higher Education
The New York Times (Dec. 16)
'At Many Colleges, Early Applications Rise'
This was the year when the frenzy to gain early admission to the nation’s most selective colleges seemed likely to subside. But the opposite seems to be holding true. Read more…

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