April 20, 2016
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.
April 15, 2016
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.
March 29, 2016
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
March 15, 2016
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
March 11, 2016
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
March 11, 2016
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
March 10, 2016
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
March 7, 2016
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
January 1, 2016
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.
September 30, 2015
Rita, a vivacious mother and businesswoman, is shocked to find her kidneys are failing. With 100,000 people on the transplant waitlist, her chances are not good. But there may be an angel closer to Rita than she realizes.
