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Monthly Archives: November 2019
Encouraging health care careers: Scholarship helps launch grads
Six are working in New York state, including one (Daryll Dykes, MD, PhD, JD) at Upstate. Many are at hospitals or private practices in the Northeast, although one is in California and three are in Houston. One (Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD) … Continue reading
Posted in health care, history, medical education, medical student
Tagged James L. Potts MD, Potts Prize
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Encouraging health care careers: Retired doctor helps high schoolers see opportunity in hospital work
He retired a couple of years ago after 43 years practicing pediatrics, but Stuart Trust, MD, still works with youth. Rather than providing medical care, he now provides medical inspiration. He meets with small groups of teens who have expressed … Continue reading
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The power of vaccines: What we can learn from science – and a pioneering Upstate graduate
BY AMBER SMITH How do we know, for sure, that vaccines don’t cause autism? “Science has a funny thing about absolutes. If you ask a scientist, ‘Can you say for sure?’ the scientist will say, ‘I can’t go beyond my … Continue reading
Posted in health care, HealthLink on Air, history, infectious disease, prevention/preventive medicine, public health, research, Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital/pediatrics
Tagged German measles, German measles vaccine, rubella, rubella vaccine
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Which ‘milk’ should you drink?
BY AMBER SMITH Market shelves are filled with varieties of nondairy beverages that call themselves milk. They may taste good whirled into a smoothie or poured over cereal. But they likely cost more than cow’s milk, and they are probably … Continue reading
Posted in diet/nutrition, health care, HealthLink on Air, Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital/pediatrics
Tagged milk alternatives, milk nutritional value, milk substitutes, nondairy beverages, nondairy milk
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What to do if a kid swallows a coin
You would think that this would be all figured out by now, because it’s a pretty common thing for a kid to swallow a penny,” says Gregory Conners, MD, executive director of Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. His first three research … Continue reading
Posted in emergency medicine/trauma, health care, Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital/pediatrics
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One nurse’s passions: He’s dedicated to patients in the recovery room and customers at his restaurant
BY JIM HOWE You can find him caring for patients as they wake up after surgery. You can also find him supervising a Vietnamese restaurant near Liverpool. Thanh Nguyen (pronounced tonn wenn), says he loves working as a nurse in … Continue reading
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Tagged spring rolls, Vietnamese recipe, Vietnamese restaurant, Vietnamese spring rolls
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TOP cancer-care program turns 20
Thoracic Oncology Program relies on team care Upstate’s Thoracic Oncology Program (TOP) is marking its 20-year anniversary. TOP follows a “multidisciplinary” team approach. Specialists from multiple disciplines make up the team, which collaborates on the care of individual thoracic and … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, health care, HealthLink on Air, lung/pulmonary
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Up close: Meet DIANA
This is the device that helps the pharmacy team in the Upstate Cancer Center mix chemotherapy medications for individual patients. The product name “DIANA” is a tribute to the ICU Medical founder and CEO’s wife, Diana Kostyra Lopez, MD, whose … Continue reading
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‘We are your neighbors’: Money raised for pediatric cancer helps kids here in Central New York
BY EMILY KULKUS Everywhere we go, Archie makes a new friend. He’s quick to smile and always chatty — not to mention pretty darn cute. So lately, lots of people stop to talk to us. Mostly him. They tell me how cute … Continue reading
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