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Division of Colorectal Surgery
… Columbia’s Division of Colorectal Surgery is dedicated to leading the field of colon and rectal surgery through top-quality clinical care, academic excellence, and pioneering … Division of Colorectal Surgery …
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Fighting For A New Way To Treat Difficult Cancers
… Scott Yanke was being treated for a rare and serious form of cancer, he was skydiving a lot. He was being treated at MD … for dedifferentiated liposarcoma, a cancer that forms from the body’s fat cells. His tumor was retroperitoneal, meaning … on patients with tumors in sensitive locations could save their lives. So why aren’t we using proton beam therapy left …
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Thin Bones on Thin Ice: What to know about Osteoporosis this winter (and beyond)
… As the winter months arrive and temperatures reach the freezing … disaster. Especially for older people, the risk of slipping on ice and breaking a bone is one that everyone … there's less quantity of bone and there's also a poorer quality of bone. What does that do? It makes the bone less …
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BRCA
… What are BRCA Genes? The Role of the BRCA Gene in DNA repair To understand the BRCA1 and … BRCA genes are themselves damaged, they can no longer do their job, and the unrepaired DNA can, in time, lead to …
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What We’re Reading: 09/04/20
… A few highlights from around the web that made it into our feeds this week. We Can Solve … Coronavirus-Test Mess Now—If We Want to It’s not an issue of testing capacity; we have the capacity and the ability to … highlighted are starting to independently implement their own systems and have begun to test widely. We can do …
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Jentai Tsai Wouldn’t Let Liver Cancer Slow Him Down
… Jentai Tsai is no stranger to hard work. Coming to the US from Taiwan in the 1970s, he worked countless hours … first bank in New York focused specifically on the needs of immigrant communities. At the age of 80, after most of … transplant surgeries are internationally recognized for their complexity (they can take over 24 hours to …
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GI Surgery Presentations and Research
… This quarterly report is a summary of the monthly Faculty Research Newsletter. Journal links … K, Rossmer I, Rosario V, Schrope BA, Chabot JA, Kluger MD. Quality of life and global health after pancreatic surgery is …
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Weight Loss Surgery for a Broken Hunger Mechanism
… Texas underwent weight loss surgery. Her hunger mechanism, the complex system of neurotransmitters and chemicals that told her brain she … some relief from related health conditions and adds a quality to life that wouldn’t exist otherwise. …
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Study Finds Exercise Improves Joint Pain in Women Taking Aromatase Inhibitors for Breast Cancer
… One of the main reasons that women have low quality of life while taking hormonal therapy is their side effects, says Dawn Hershman, MD, MS , Associate …
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"Thank you for giving me my life back." — Darlene Seyfried, age 47
… leg ulcer in 2002, when she was just 38. Despite years of treatment with her local physician, her ulcer failed to … – and increasingly depressed – by her deteriorated quality of life. When Darlene began treatment at the Vascular Surgery Vein Program in late 2009, her physician …
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Living in NYC
… Many applicants will be excited about the opportunity to live in NYC and many will be apprehensive. Most will have some combination of the two. There is no getting around the fact that New York … allowing most residents to find one that fits well with their preferences and requirements. Most residents live in …
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John Jones Fellows
… Mentor : Subhash Krishnamoorthy, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of … Presbyterian – Allen Hospital Dr. Angel Rosario Jr. is the 11th recipient of the John Jones Research Fellowship for … from July 2024 to June 2025. These fellows will present their research results at the Annual Meeting of the John …
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State of the Union: Hernia Care Today
… An interview with Yuri Novitsky , MD, Director of the Columbia Hernia Center , and Dina Podolsky , MD, … in a lot of this clinical research. We’re ramping up our quality improvement projects. But in terms of the world, I … State of the Union: Hernia Care Today …
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Multidisciplinary Care for Complex Congenital Syndromes
… NYP Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital provides the most comprehensive care available for babies with … malformations,” says William Middlesworth, MD , director of the Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program. … suffer from a number of morbidities related to a defect in their Elastin gene, which in its deadliest form can lead to …
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