Category Archives: history

 A historical look at 5 popular heart medications: Are you taking any of them?

Posted on May 3, 2019 by

BY AMBER SMITH Some of the newer cardiac drugs were chemically designed in laboratories before going through years of expensive clinical trials and eventually gaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Some of the older drugs, which are still … Continue reading →

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Is this Sarah Loguen, MD?

Posted on April 12, 2019 by

National museum wonders just who is pictured in this newly discovered tintype BY SUSAN KEETER “An unidentified tintype in our collection bears a striking resemblance to Dr. Sarah Loguen,” wrote Emily Houf of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and … Continue reading →

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 How civilians have benefited from battlefield medical care

Posted on April 8, 2019 by

BY JIM HOWE Many advances in medicine have come from the military, where medical teams seek new ways to help wounded warriors, from the battlefield to the operating room to the research laboratory. Wartime necessity spurred the expanded use of … Continue reading →

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The oath physicians take: Comparing what new medical school graduates promise

Posted on May 4, 2018 by

BY AMBER SMITH Although new doctors are not required to take an oath, medical students graduating from Upstate Medical University have traditionally recited a version of the Hippocratic oath, which was written around 400 BC and attributed to the Greek physician … Continue reading →

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Three trailblazers: A look at some of Upstate’s modern medical pioneers

Posted on February 26, 2018 by

BY AMBER SMITH They’re friends who have mentored one another. All three have been faculty members at Upstate for decades. They’ve all earned “distinguished service professor” honors. And they’re all women. Sharon Brangman, MD, Patricia Numann, MD, and Ruth Weinstock, MD, … Continue reading →

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12 things you might not know about the United States military

Posted on November 10, 2017 by

Upstate’s division chief of trauma, critical care and burns is Army veteran William Marx, DO. He recently gave a presentation about the military to medical colleagues that included these dozen pieces of information: * Of the five branches of the … Continue reading →

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This common medical device dates back centuries

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

This article appears in the summer 2017 issue of Upstate Health magazine.

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Have you seen the new ‘Upstate Health’ magazine?

Posted on July 27, 2017 by

As a mother, I cannot select one child as my favorite. As an editor, I don’t have one favorite magazine issue. I love them all. That said, this summer issue of Upstate Health is a particularly good one, for a … Continue reading →

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Did you know? The scientist who discovered genetically inherited breast cancer visited Upstate

Posted on March 7, 2017 by

In 1990, her laboratory zeroed in on chromosome 17q21 to prove that breast cancer is genetically inherited in some families. The scientists working with Mary-Claire King, PhD, called this particular genetic mutation BRCA1. Soon after, another mutation, called BRCA2, was … Continue reading →

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Triage for masterpieces: Preserving medical history through art

Posted on February 10, 2017 by

BY SUSAN KEETER On the table is a banged-up World War II soldier. His left elbow is punctured. His skin is cracked. Something brown and gelatinous is stuck to his back. The soldier is photographed. His injuries and overall state … Continue reading →

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