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Mitral Valve Disease
… Mitral valve disease is the most prevalent form of heart valve disease. The heart … and then opens to let more blood into the ventricle. The most common diseases affecting the mitral valve are mitral …
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Bret Taback, MD
… Dr. Bret Taback is a nationally recognized surgical oncologist in the New … Irving Medical Center department of surgery. Dr. Taback is a leader in the clinical management of melanoma, sarcoma … Commission on Cancer Physician Liaison for NYP Hospital. Most recently, Dr. Taback is a noted Castle Connolly Top …
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Unprecedented Study Documents Severe Shortage of Surgical Care in Sierra Leone
… are high that you will never receive treatment. Ever. That is precisely the situation facing the people of Sierra Leone, … Rwanda, and others. According to Dr. Kushner, “There is currently widespread support for public initiatives to … for it,” Dr. Kushner says. This study, he explains, is a first step toward mobilizing the World Health …
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Ryeom Lab
… leading to tumor progression and metastasis. Calcineurin is a calcium regulated ser/thr phosphatase that … pathway attenuating tumor angiogenesis. My lab is investigating cross-talk between stromal cells and …
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NYP/Columbia Joins National Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT)
… of the PERT Consortium, inaugurated in 2015, NYP/Columbia is in the vanguard of treating pulmonary embolism with a … Program Director at Columbia. A silent killer, PE is the third most common cause of death from cardiovascular disease, just …
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Philip George, MD
… Philip George, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Columbia University. He is a board-certified general surgeon who is … is committed to his patients by ensuring they receive the most up-to-date care and by making sure they feel comfortable …
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Finding Diet Drugs That Work
… Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro) have become the most popular medical options for their significant weight … for these medications has exploded, and the pill form is already in development. While there’s no “magic pill” (or … target weight loss in specific parts of the body. In fact, most weight loss medications don’t even work in the …
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Diagnosing Pancreatitis
… may be performed to determine how well the pancreas is functioning. Laboratory Tests Blood testing may be done … . Learn more about our efforts to bring you the clearest, most accurate, and most human health resources available. …
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Persistence Pays off for Lucien Zito and His Family
… so moved that he came right out and said to me, 'This is the man. This is the man who is going to do it.'" Dr. … finished in March, 2008. By April, Mr. Zito had regained most of his strength and digestive functions. The only … gave me hope," he says, "and I think that is one of the most important ingredients in facing the disease and getting …
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June K Wu, MD
… June Wu, is a pediatric plastic surgeon/craniofacial surgeon. She is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery at CUIMC … the blood and lymphatic systems that affect patients, and most of these conditions currently have no cure. Dr. Wu is a …
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Bariatric Patient Chooses Sleeve Gastrectomy and “Couldn’t Be Happier”
… Though she’d been into fitness for most of her life, Gina C., an administrator at a hospital, … afterwards; instead of looking bulb-shaped, the stomach is so much smaller and slimmer that it almost looks like a … and regularly adjusted, as required by gastric banding. Most importantly — in Gina’s eyes, at least — one of the …
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