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Dr. Rahul Sharma Named Top Emergency Medicine Chief at NYP Site and Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Rahul Sharma was recently named the emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center as well as the chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.Dr. Sharma succeeds Dr. Neal Flomenbaum, who assumed a new role as chief of emergency medical services at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.In his new role, Dr. Sharma oversees all operations for the Lisa Perry Emergency Center at NewYork-... Read More

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What the Gut? Two Studies Explore Microbiome-Cancer Connection

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine are exploring the relationship between cancer, the bacteria floating in and around our guts and antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs.

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Weill Cornell Medicine and Pager Partnership Connects Users to World-Class Specialists

Weill Cornell Medicine is expanding New Yorkers’ access to its world-class physicians through a new partnership with Pager, an innovative mobile app that delivers on-demand healthcare services, including online chats and home and office visits.

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Cranberry Compound Packs Powerful Cancer Punch

A compound made from cranberries has shown promise in killing several cell lines and blood samples from an aggressive form of leukemia in humans as well as canine lymphoma, according to preliminary research from Weill Cornell Medicine.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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