April 26, 2016
Scientists at Ƶ are exploring the relationship between cancer, the bacteria floating in and around our guts and antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs.
April 25, 2016
Ƶ 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.
April 25, 2016
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 Ƶ.
April 21, 2016
Ƶ 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.
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 Ƶ 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
