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Brain expertise featured in Physicians Practice publication
The stroke care and brain expertise available at Upstate is showcased in the November issue of Physicians Practice magazine, distributed to doctors throughout Central New York. Also included is an...
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Heart rate may drop after weight loss surgery
A woman in her 40s came to Upstate University Hospital’s emergency department because of bouts of lightheadedness and passing out. Five months earlier she underwent weight loss surgery. At the...
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7-minute workout is interval training
The “plank” is one of 12 moves in the 7-minute workout, which also includes jumping jacks, wall sits, push-ups, abdominal crunches, step-ups onto chairs, squats, tricep dips, high-knee running in...
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Why don’t we ever hear about heart cancer?
Robert Dunton, MD “It’s not something we see very often,” said Robert Dunton, MD, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Upstate University Hospital. He went on to provide this answer: Benign tumors of the...
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Heart recipient’s persistence leads to emotional meeting with donor’s mother
Vicky Brannon’s 14-year-old son, Matthew John McIntyre II, was killed in what police called an accidental shooting in July 1996 across the street from the family’s home in Fulton. She agreed to donate...
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Here’s the summer Upstate Health magazine
Summer for many Central New Yorkers means getting outdoors, whether at amusement parks, on lakes or beaches, or in back yards. The summer issue of Upstate Health magazine features two nurses who kayak...
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Cellphone-assisted diagnosis saved a newborn, guided a career
Rahul Dudhani, MD, remembers when he was new to Syracuse and had a chance – but influential – encounter in June 2012 at Café Kubal. Rahul Dudhani, MD He was a few weeks away from starting his surgical...
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Ronald Angona, Jr. receives President’s Award
Upstate Medical University presented 16 awards at its fall convocation Sept. 16. The President’s Award for Outstanding Voluntary Faculty Service, College of Health Professions, was given to Ronald E....
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Surgery, chemo battle preschooler’s kidney tumor
Ariana LaVaute (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LAVAUTE FAMILY). Three-year-old Ariana LaVaute attended the Skaneateles Labor Day parade on Sept. 1, 2014, and then helped her father trim shrubs in their yard. A...
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An audience with the pope reverberates at Upstate
Pope Francis during his recent visit to the United States. Jake Braithwaite, 26, and Brendan Coffey, 30, are chaplain interns at Upstate University Hospital, Braithwaite in neurology and Coffey in...
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