Tagged: Health

On this edition of Need To Know Rochester:

• April is Autism awareness month. What happens when children with Autism transition to adulthood? 
• We talk with Sunny Chandrasekar about being a role model after her appearance on "The Biggest Loser". Also, how Monroe County is tackling the issue of childhood obesity.
• The Business Section with Matt Daneman from the Democrat and Chronicle.

Elissa Orlando discusses intellectual and developmental disabilities with Dr. Stephen Sulkes from the University of Rochester Medical Center. This discussion is part of WXXI's Dialogue on Disability week. 

A consortium of three upstate medical schools is to receive $12.1 million in funding to try to create a treatment for people living with multiple sclerosis.

The Biomedical Sciences University of Rochester Medical Center, the Upstate Medical University in Syracuse and the University of Buffalo School of Medicine will combine to research the currently incurable disease.

A new law taking effect in 2013 will provide women with more information when they have exams for breast cancer. WXXI's Scott Fybush spoke to registered nurse Theresa Bowick and Beatriz LeBron, editor-in-chief of ROC ONE magazine, about the attempt to make sure more women in Rochester's city neighborhoods get their exams.