News from NYU Langone Health
Gene Variant Provides Clue For Why Some Men Were Less Severely Ill From COVID. (Newsday (NY))
Newsday (NY) (3/15) Men with a particular gene variant, “rs419598, helps regulate the amount of anti-inflammatory molecules that are produced, said Steven B. Abramson, MD, Executive Vice President and Vice Dean for Education, Faculty, and Academic Affairs, Chief Academic Officer, NYU Langone Health.” For the study, the “blood of 2,589 COVID-19 patients hospitalized at NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital in Manhattan between March 2020 and March 2021 was analyzed.” Rheumatologist “Mukundan G. Attur, PhD, associate professor, Departent of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology,” said, “If we can control the inflammation, we can control the disease.”
Also reporting are News Medical (3/14), UPI (3/14), US News & World Report (3/14), and Drug Information Online (3/14).
Seizures As Cause Of Pediatric Sudden Unexplained Deaths. (Pediatric Neurology)
Pediatric Neurology (3/14) “‘Our study, although small, offers the first direct evidence that seizures may be responsible for some sudden deaths in children, which are usually unwitnessed during sleep,’ said study lead investigator Laura Gould, MSc, MA, PT, research assistant professor, Department of Neurology. Neurologist Orrin Devinsky, MD, professor, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, said, “These study findings show that seizures are much more common than patients’ medical histories suggest, and that further research is needed to determine if seizures are frequent occurrences in sleep-related deaths in toddlers, and potentially in infants, older children, and adults.”
Maternal Deaths Overestimated With Reliance On Pregnancy Checkbox. (Physician's Weekly)
Physician’s Weekly (3/14) “Lower, stable maternal mortality rates are seen on identification of maternal deaths by requiring mention of pregnancy among multiple causes of death, according to a study published online March 12 in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology,” with study Justin S. Brandt, MD, associate professor, director, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, saying in a statement, “By not relying on the pregnancy checkbox, our approach avoided the misclassification that has given the false impression of increasing maternal mortality rates in the United States.”
Also reporting are Becker’s Hospital Review (3/14) and Science Daily (3/13).
Council Leans On Peer Support To Address City’s $100m Youth Mental Health Crisis.
Crain’s New York Business “Jennifer Havens, MD, the Arnold Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, chair, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, professor, Department of Psychiatry, said that the peer-led initiatives have a place in the city’s offerings but added that the model is another ‘light-touch’ effort to an epidemic that has reached crisis levels.”
Atlantic Health, NYU Expand Partnership For Heart Care. (Becker's ASC Review)
Becker’s ASC Review (3/14) “Atlantic Health System’s Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center and New York City-based NYU Langone Health are expanding their partnership to care for patients with adult congenital heart diseases” through an “organ transplantation partnership that coordinates transplant care at Morristown Medical Center for heart patients and Overlook Medical Center for liver patients.”
ROI-NJ (NJ) (3/14) Dan G. Halpern, MD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, which was the first in the state of New York to be nationally accredited as an Adult Congenital Heart Disease Comprehensive Care Center and the first in the nation to be reaccredited,” said, “Our partnership with experts at Morristown Medical Center will provide advanced adult congenital heart disease care to patients in New Jersey, allowing them to stay in their local community.”
NYU Grossman Study Reveals Nearly Six Million Young People Have Long Covid. (WBNG-TV Binghamton (NY))
WBNG-TV (3/15) “A new study at NYU Grossman School of Medicine estimates up to 5.8 million young people have long COVID,” with study author Rachel S. Gross, MD, assistant professor, Departments of Pediatrics, and Population Health, “Long Covid can look different in different children, that not everybody has the same symptoms and that it can look different depending on when the symptoms start.”
The Possibilities For Injured Yankees Superstars. (New York Post)
The New York Post (3/14) Julia L. Iafrate, DO, clinical assistant professor, Departments of Orthopedic Surgery, and Rehabilitation Medicine, joins New York Post Sports anchor Dexter Henry on the weekly ‘Injury Report’ segment to break down Yankees ace Gerrit Cole’s UCL injury and what may come up for the reigning AL Cy Young winner.”
The Athletic (3/14) Explaing why “New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole flew to Los Angeles for more tests on his injured pitching elbow,” Guillem Gonzalez-Lomas, MD, assistant professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, who hasn’t reviewed Cole’s medicals, said, “In every test, there’s potential – even if it’s tiny, tiny, tiny – for something to be missed.”
Actress Olivia Munn Is Battling Breast Cancer. (HealthDay)
HealthDay (3/14) Ruth Oratz, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center explains that a Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score “allows healthcare professionals to calculate the probability of a woman developing breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.”
WABC-TV New York (3/14) “Having access to a breast cancer risk assessment tool empowers patients, Ruth Oratz, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center, said in an email Wednesday.”
WNYW-TV (3/14) Rabia A. De Latour, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology discussed the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score and screening for other cancers with viewers.
Also reporting are Fox News (3/14) and Drug Information Online (3/14).
Gastro Doctors Share The 1 Food They Never (Or Rarely) Eat. (HuffPost)
HuffPost (3/15) “There are few people who have an easy time turning down a few pieces of fragrant bacon or a hot dog, but Rabia A. De Latour, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, steers clear of processed meats like these – and sadly, cold cuts count, too,” saying, “Data has linked the ingestion of red and processed meats four or more times per week to as high as a 20% increased risk of colon cancer.”
Revenue Did Not Increase With Cost Of TKA In Patients With High Comorbidity Burden. (Healio)
Healio (3/14) Ran Schwarzkopf, MD, professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, site chief, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, and colleagues “stratified 10,647 patients who underwent elective, unilateral TKA between 2012 and 2021 into groups based on whether they had a high comorbidity burden.”
Swedish Researchers Develop New AI Computer Model To Detect Lymphatic Cancer. (PhaMed)
PhaMed (3/14) “Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new computer model” in partnership “with researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Chalmers University of Technology, Medical University in Vienna, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and NYU Langone Health,” using artificial intelligence (AI), which successfully identifies signs of lymphatic cancer.
A First For Fatty Liver: FDA Approves Madrigal Pharma NASH Drug. (MedCity News)
MedCity News (3/14) “In an interview ahead of the Rezdiffra approval announcement, Dr. Lisa Ganjhu, DO, clinical associate professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology” who was not involved in Rezdiffra’s clinical trials, “said MASH can be diagnosed as part of routine metabolic tests that are part of a patient’s annual exam.”
Blood Test Shows 83% Accuracy For Detecting Colorectal Cancer, Study Finds. (CBS News)
CBS News (3/14) “A blood test intended to detect colorectal cancer performed well in a clinical study,” and “CBS News chief medical correspondent Jonathan D. LaPook, MD, the Mebane Professor of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, professor, Department of Population Health, said this promises to help usher in an alternative to current screening tests, including colonoscopy, stool testing for blood and stool testing for genetic material.”
Mounjaro, Zepbound Can Help People With Long-Term Obesity. (Medical News Today)
Medical News Today (3/14) Commenting on research showing “that medications that contain the ingredient trizepatide work to help people lose weight” regardless of duration of obesity, Holly F. Lofton, MD, clinical associate professor, Departments of Surgery, Division of Bariatric Surgery, and Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, who was not involved in the study,” said, “For the prescriber, I believe that this information can guide us to determine that it’s never too late to treat a patient with obesity and that we have scientific evidence to sensibly extrapolate the categorical weight loss that is demonstrated in the trials to our patients regardless of their initial BMI or how long they’ve had obesity.”
Paywall* Medscape (3/14)* Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor, Department of Population Health, Division of Medical Ethics, writes, “We can either continue to promote diet and try to figure out cheaper alternatives to losing weight and controlling obesity, or we can put half of America on injectable drugs and break the budget.”
Fox Business (3/14) “Fox News medical contributor Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine discusses Eli Lilly’s response to the prescription drug craze on ‘The Claman Countdown.’
News from NYU Langone Hospital–Long Island
Long Island’s Flurry Of Medical Market Activity Is Driven By Retail Revamps, Report Finds. (Crain's New York Business)
Crain’s New York Business (3/15) reports that as a result of the pandemic decimating many retailers, “NYU Langone Health’s takeover of the Sears building, and the first phase of Stony Brook Medicine’s move into 170,000 square feet of Smith Haven Mall space in Lake Grove, are some of the most prominent deals of the year, the report shows.”
