News from NYU Langone Health
‘Don’t Damage Those Eyes’ Observing Monday’s Solar Eclipse, Medical Expert Says. (WTOP-FM Washington)
WTOP-FM Washington (4/4) “WTOP’s Michelle Basch and John Aaron spoke with CBS News Chief Medical Jonathan D. LaPook, MD, the Mebane Professor of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, professor, Department of Population Health “about just how serious it is to have these special glasses on Monday” for viewing the solar eclipse safely.
WNBC-TV (4/4) Nitish Mehta, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Langone Health Eye Center, said that directly looking at the eclipse is like getting “a magnifying glass” and shining that concentrated light “for three to five minutes on the back of your retina.”
Neurons ‘Tag’ New Memories For Storage During Sleep. (Science Friday)
Science Friday (4/4) In WNYC’s Science Friday podcast, Ira Flatow “talks with György Buzsáki, MD, PhD, the Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, and professor, Department of Neurology, about the findings of the study” which “found that during the day, as the mice formed memories, cells in the hippocampus fired in a formation called ‘sharp wave ripples.’”
NYU Langone Health Physician Discusses Effect Of Climate Change On Seasonal Allergies. (WMBC TV 63 (USA))
WMBC TV 63 (USA) (4/5) Purvi S. Parikh, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, and Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy and Immunology, discusses the effect of climate change are having on seasonal allergies, saying “Global warming, climate change has led to longer pollen seasons starting much earlier and going into later in the year.”
Man Leaves Hospital With Clean Bill Of Health After Receiving Pig Kidney In Groundbreaking Transplant. (New York Post)
The New York Post (4/4) “62-year-old Rick Slayman was sent home from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Wednesday, two weeks after having a successful organ transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney, according to a hospital press release;” this procedure “comes after a pig kidney was implanted into a brain-dead man named Maurice ‘Mo’ Miller at NYU Langone Health last year.”;
Reason (4/4) “Although some animal rights activists object to killing animals for transplant organs,” Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor, Department of Population Health, Division of Medical Ethics, “has observed, ‘If you’re interested in animal rights, you’re probably better off turning toward trying to change behavior at breakfast than you are trying to change behavior about organ transplants.’”
