SUNY Upstate Medical University

  Upstate Medical University will be one of the first places in the world to hold Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trials for kids under 5 years old when the study begins on April 5th.  Healthy children will have to provide blood samples for 2 years to assess their long term response to the vaccine. 

A pilot says FAA approved drone test flights for Upstate Medical University in Syracuse this week are proving they can fly safely across the city.  Pilot Brendan Stewart who works for DroneUP says the length of flights completed here within a visual line of sight is groundbreaking because there was live street traffic below.

Nearly half of the more than 18,000 calls to the Upstate Poison Control Center in 2019 were about kids six and younger who had unintentional drug poisonings from medicine.  The hospital is using grant funding to provide nearly 1,000 affected families with medication lock boxes before they leave the hospital.

SUNY Upstate Medical University is finally set to begin a $158 million construction project.  Officials broke ground Monday on the site of the soon-to-be Nappi Longevity Institute located directly across from the Upstate Cancer Center. 

Central New York health officials are updating the warning signs to look for in someone who might be having a stroke. Balance & eyesight trouble are now being noted as keys symptom to be aware of in stroke patients. This goes along with the other known symptoms like facial droop, and slurred speech.

SUNY Upstate and SUNY ESF experts on diseases from ticks stood with Congress Member John Katko to support a new proposal that could aid in reducing the impacts. 

SUNY Upstate Medical University has joined the process of developing a vaccine that could help address the ongoing heroin epidemic.  Scientists here are working in conjunction with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research using a $3.7 million grant to conduct clinical trials.