Health

Rochester area health care providers will now have access to essential information about patients collected by first responders in the moments after a call to 911.  The Rochester Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) is partnering with local ambulance services to upgrade its database.

  The Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to a new medication that targets tumor cells while leaving healthy cells untouched.  The drug Kadcyla is made by Roche. It works in combination with the established medication Herceptin, a powerful chemotherapy drug and a third chemical linking the medicines to form a potent cocktail against breast tumors.

  The director of the Western New York  Comprehensive Care Center for Eating Disorders says a possible loss  of state funding will be devastating for eating disorder patients throughout New York State.  

The need for more primary care doctors in Upstate New York is steadily increasing.

According to a study by the Healthcare Association of New York State, or HANYS, the demand jumped from 18% to 31% from year over year.

"I think a lot of that is in recognition of the healthcare implementation and knowing that there's going to be a need for more primary care doctors because that's how the model is kind of rolling out," says Sherry Chorost, the workforce director of HANYS.  "So I'm not very surprised by this."