Hoping to Increase Breastfeeding Rates, Upstate Hires New Lactation Consultant and Expands Services

When Jayne Charlamb, MD, FACP, FABM, IBCLC, started Upstate’s Breastfeeding Medicine Program in 2015, she set out to help the most complex medical situations with newborns and mothers. Three years later, Dr. Charlamb, who serves as the director of...
20-Mar-2018 3:25 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Researchers Use Synthetic Protein to Disrupt Work of Bacteria

A synthetic protein that disrupts the ability of bacteria to perform basic life functions—moving, eating, attaching to hosts—could be a key to fighting infectious disease and preventing bacteria from evolving into drug-resistant pathogens.
26-Jan-2018 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Discovery Advances Understanding of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The findings could help guide doctors to determine how best to treat patients with Crohn's disease.
5-Oct-2017 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New Mixed Methods Research App Announced

Mixed methods research design is an innovative research methodology for health science (including nursing science), social science, and behavioral sciences.
15-Sep-2017 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Public Service Announcement Stresses the Importance of Being Tested for Glaucoma

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world, according to the World Health Organization. It is estimated that more than 3 million Americans have glaucoma, but only half of those know they have it.
3-Aug-2017 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Upstate Creates Pediatric Fellowship with Special Focus on Treating Child Abuse, Neglect

Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital will offer for the first time a three-year pediatric fellowship with a special focus on treating child abuse and neglect.
20-Jul-2017 1:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

A Step Closer to Halting the Spread of Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya

Upstate Medical University researcher Anna Stewart Ibarra, Ph.D., M.P.A., and her colleagues have created a mathematical model that can serve as a guide to make monthly predictions on when people are at greatest risk for contracting mosquito-borne...
20-Jul-2017 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Research Highlights Ideal Temperature for Spread of Mosquito-Borne Diseases

Finding will aid global public health officials as they develop early warning systems for dengue, Zika and chikungunya and find ways to reduce the risk of exposure to disease-carrying mosquitoes.
16-May-2017 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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