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Get Enough Vitamin D to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer, Physician Says

Weill Cornell Medicine physician Dr. Allyson Ocean shared one way individuals can lower their risk of cancer — a method she practices herself — in a recent Prevention magazine article.

What a Simple Blood Test Can Reveal About Chemo and Prostate Cancer

Blood tests are currently being used to see if advanced prostate cancer patients will respond positively to treatment and to prevent cancer cells from developing a resistance to the drug.

Achieving Myeloma Treatment ‘Milestones’ that Allow Patients to Live Longer and Improve Quality of Life

Dr. Ruben Niesvizky talked about the privilege of treat myeloma patients and some of the new therapies being used to help patients, in a video for Healio, an online publication for health care professionals.

The Tree of Life

Dr. Rebecca Baergen, chief of obstetrics & perinatal pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine is one of only a hundred or so pathologists across the country that focus on the placenta. In her decades-long work, Dr. Baergen has seen the organ gain importance and significance. Today, every placenta that's delivered at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell is stored in a labor and delivery unit refrigerator for one week. This procedure, which Dr. Baergen implemented soon after arriving 18 years ago,... Read More

Weill Cornell to Test Viral Therapy for Brain Tumors in New Clinical Trial

The Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center is now enrolling patients in a new clinical trial testing a retroviral replicating vector (Toca 511) against recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and anaplastic astrocytoma (AA).   In the trial, which will be conducted at Weill Cornell by Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna, patients who are undergoing resection surgery for a first or second recurrence of GBM or AA will be treated with either the investigational treatment (Toca 511, which is used in combination... Read More

Dr. Schwartz Paper Featured on Cover of Journal of Neurosurgery

A new publication co-authored by Dr. Theodore Schwartz is featured on the cover of the March 2016 issue of theJournal of Neurosurgery. The paper, “Endoscope-assisted endonasal versus supraorbital keyhole resection of olfactory groove meningiomas: comparison and combination of 2 minimally invasive approaches,” was written by Dr. Schwartz along with Dr. Matei Banu, Dr. Alpesh Mehta, Dr. Malte Ottenhausen, Dr. Justin F. Fraser, Dr. Oszkar Szentirmai, Dr. Vijay K. Anand, Dr. Apostolos J. Tsiouris,... Read More

Weill Cornell Medical Student Wins Alex’s Lemonade Stand Grant for DIPG Summer Project

Umberto Tosi, a first-year medical student at Weill Cornell, has been awarded a grant that will allow him to conduct a summer research project supporting Dr. Mark Souweidane’s current clinical trial for DIPG and laying the groundwork for the future expansion of that trial. The grant, from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, is part of the foundation’s Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) program.In Dr. Souweidane’s clinical trial, a therapeutic agent is delivered directly to the site of... Read More

Dr. Navarro-Ramirez Wins Young Investigator Award

Dr. Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez, a research fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Roger Härtl, has been awarded a 2016 Young Investigator Award by the Society of Lateral Access Surgery (SOLAS). The award is given to the highest ranking abstracts presented; Dr. Navarro-Ramirez was honored for his abstract, entitled: “Radiological correlation of facet degeneration and indirect decompression after Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion.”Founded in 2006, SOLAS supports research and collaboration on lateral... Read More

Dr. Nelson Moussazadeh Awarded Charlie Kuntz Scholar Award

Sixth-year neurological surgery resident Nelson Moussazadeh, M.D., has been awarded a Charlie Kuntz scholar award for his paper "Epigenetic Profiling Reveals a Unique Histone Code in Chordoma.” The award will be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves (DSPN ) March 16-19 in Orlando.The Charlie Kuntz scholar awards are presented each year to the top 30 neurosurgical residents or fellows for outstanding papers on spinal research. Dr.... Read More

Wedding photo of Weill Cornell Medicine patient Dorothy Shelley, who walked down the aisle with her brother, 30 years after he donated a kidney to save her life.

Bride Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Kidney Transplant

For Dorothy Shelley, who was diagnosed with kidney disease as a child, a kidney transplant was life-changing. On the 30th anniversary of her transplant, she reflected on opportunities it gave her.