News Archives of 2014

Upstate raises $585,000 for Community Giving Campaign
February 14, 2014
More than 1,400 Upstate employees pledged over $585,000 to support agencies in central New York that improve the quality of life for those in our communities.
Upstate Sleep Center opens new expanded facility
February 14, 2014
The capacity of the center has doubled to now offer 12 sleep study rooms.
Upstate physician-scientist ranked as one of the world's leading experts on immune disorder
February 6, 2014
MIchael Iannuzzi, MD, MBA, ranks third among the world's top investigators of sarcoidosis, according to Expertscape, a global online health information database.
Yvonne Maddox, PhD, of the NIH, to deliver Elizabeth Blackwell Day lecture Feb. 12
February 6, 2014
Maddox is deputy director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the NIH, where she directs the Safe to Sleep campaign to reduce sudden infant death syndrome.

Ambassadors Services now at Community Campus
February 1, 2014
Upstate University Hospital’s Community Campus recently launched the Ambassador Services program.

Strong Women Strong Hearts set for Feb. 8
February 1, 2014
Upstate University Hospital's cardiac nursing team will host its third annual Strong Women Strong Hearts event Saturday, Feb. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at HealthLink OASIS Learning Center, 6333 Rt. 298, East Syracuse. The event will include health screenings, exercise, nutritional information, heart-healthy tastings, reiki therapy, massage and yoga. There also will be...

Opening ceremony Feb. 5 begins Upstate's Black History Month celebration
January 31, 2014
Entertainment and a heart healthy soul food lunch with vegetarian options will complete the event that is free and open to the Upstate Medical University community.

Vision research at Upstate receives $110,000 grant
January 30, 2014
This recent award brings support from the Research to Prevent Blindness to more than $2.6 million since 1998.

Upstate receives $56,100 grant from St. Baldrick's Foundation
January 24, 2014
Grant helps make clinical trials available to children undergoing treatment for cancer
Upstate seeks participants for dengue vaccine trial
January 24, 2014
Clinical trial is open to those in good health between the ages of 18 and 45 to test effectiveness of vaccine against the dengue virus, once only found in the tropics that is now emerging as a health threat to in the United States.