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MMPRC Hosting "Fire and Freedom" Traveling Exhibit

Now through January 4, 2019, the Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center is hosting a National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health traveling exhibit entitled Fire and Freedom.The exhibit explores the complex relationships of society, enslavement, and food during the early days of America, when African and Native American influences played important roles in the survival of the European settlers and when bartering with foods, herbs, and commodities were often a key ingredient of... Read More

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Podcast: Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor and Other Movement Disorders

In this episode of Brain and Spine Care, Dr. Michael Kaplitt explains how new technology can eliminate the source of tremors in a completely non-invasive way.

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Podcast: Advances in Precision Medicine and Genomic Sequencing for Pediatric Brain Tumors

Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield discusses how precision medicine and genomic sequencing have the potential to change the course of treatment for children with advanced or metastatic brain tumors.

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Podcast: New Treatments for Subdural Hematomas

In this episode of Brain and Spine Care, Dr. Jared Knopman discusses a new minimally invasive approach to treating subdural hematomas.

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Podcast: Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Surgery

In the first episode of the Brain and Spine Care podcast, Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz discusses the latest advances in minimally invasive brain tumor surgery.

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Caring for the Caregiver: An Event for Pulmonary Disease Caregivers

Learn more about the upcoming lecture "Caring for the Caregiver," hosted by the Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care at Weill Cornell Medicine.

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Podcast: Leonard List 2018

In this episode of CancerCast: Conversations About New Developments in Medicine, Cancer Care and Research, host Dr. John Leonard shares 15 interesting abstracts presented at the 2018 meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

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Podcast: Screening for Prostate Cancer

This episode of CancerCast: Conversations About New Developments in Medicine, Cancer Care and Research, discusses what men and their loved ones should know about prostate cancer screening.

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Pneumonia: What You Need to Know

A nurse practitioner at the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine explains the most important facts about pneumonia to keep yourself and your loved ones safe.

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The State of Breast Cancer in 2018

We dig a little deeper into the most recent statistics to better understand how breast cancer is affecting women in the United States today.