NYU Langone Health in the News— Monday, March 4, 2024

March 4, 2024

News from NYU Langone Health

In Philanthropy: Julia Koch’s Eight-Figure Gift For A Florida Care Center And More. (New York Observer)

The New York Observer (3/1) “An ambulatory care center in West Palm Beach, Fla., will be named after Julia Koch in recognition of her $75 million gift towards the new NYU Langone Health facility” which will be known as “the Julia Koch Family Ambulatory Care Center.” Kenneth Langone, chair, NYU Langone Health Board of Trustees, said in a statement, “For the rest of us,” Florida is “a home away from home – with one big deficit: a lack of comprehensive care from the full spectrum of NYULangone doctors, who offer unmatched quality in every specialty.”

Cancer Prevention: How To Reduce Risk And Ask The Right Questions During Screenings. (New York Post)

The New York Post (3/4) “Marleen I. Meyers, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center talked to us about the early warning signs, screening recommendations and prevention tips” for cancer “we should all be aware of.”

Not Too Late To Get Kid’s Flu Shot. (WBTW-TV Florence-Myrtle Beach (SC))

WBTW-TV (3/2) “Arun Chopra, MD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Chief, Pediatrics Service, Tisch Hospital, says it’s not too late to get your child that vaccine older than six months and offers protection a week or two after the shot.”

FDA Approves Amivantamab-vmjw For Locally Advanced, Metastatic NSCLC With EGFR Exon 20 Insertion Mutation. (Drug Topics)

Drug Topics (3/1) Joshua K. Sabari, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center and study investigator, said in a press release, “The results observed in the PAPILLON study showed significant improvement in progression-free survival, supporting the use of this regimen as the potential standard of care in the first-line treatment of these patients.”
Also reporting are Insider (3/1) and European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer (UK) (3/4).

Endologix Initiates Postmarket Study Of The Detour System. (Vascular News)

Vascular News (3/1) “Thomas Maldonado, MD, the Schwartz Buckley Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, underscored the significance of being the inaugural site to enroll a PTAB patient: ‘Our privilege of enrolling the first patient in the PTAB1 postmarket study underscores our commitment to advancing patient care in complex PAD.’”

NeurologyLive Friday 5. (Neurology Live)

Neurology Live (3/1) “Alcibiades J. Rodriguez, MD, associate professor, Department of Neurology, provided perspective on the overlap in characteristics of sleep disorders and the necessary approach to ensuring accurate diagnosis and initial treatment and Eytan Raz, MD, PhD, associate professor, Departments of Neurosurgery, and Radiology, provided clarity on the individualized treatment options for cervical artery dissection following a scientific statement paper from the American Heart Association” in a news roundup.

American Academy Of Orthopedic Surgeons, Feb.12 To 16. (Drug Information Online)

Drug Information Online (3/1) “Jay Zaifman, MD, resident, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, and colleagues found that the incidence and number of sports-related orthopedic injuries in the United States are likely to continue to increase among patients aged 65 years and older.”

$1 Billion Donation Pays Tuition Fees For All New York City Medical School Students In Perpetuity. (Skeptic Society Magazine)

Skeptic Society Magazine (3/2) reported, “Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a former professor, has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward” in “one of the largest charitable donations to an educational institution in the U.S. and most likely the largest to a medical school.” However, “it is not the only institution to receive transformative donations,” such as how “NYU Grossman School of Medicine and UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine have also received substantial contributions aimed at alleviating financial barriers for students.”
Also reporting are HBCU News (3/1) and the Optimist Daily (3/1).

Frisco’s Baird Medical Devices Accelerates U.S. Expansion, Appoints CCO. (Dallas Innovates (TX))

Dallas Innovates (TX) (3/1) “Baird said that since the first procedure was conducted on Jan. 12 by Dr. Alizera Falahati, there has been a steady increase in the number of procedures successfully conducted in the U.S. by leaders in the field of thyroid disease, including Endocrine Surgeon and Director of Robotic Surgery Dr. Rasa Zarnegar of Weill Cornell Medicine and Raymond L. Yung, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

5 Common Running Gait Problems And How To Fix Them. (Runner's World)

Runner’s World (3/1) “ there’s no ‘right’ way to run, we do know in terms of injury prevention or perhaps efficiency for movement for performance, there are better ways to do it,” said Heather A. Milton, MS, RCEP, CSCS, exercise physiologist supervisor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Sports Performance Center.

If You Can Only Work Out On Weekends, You’re Likely As Fit As People Who Exercise Throughout The Week. (Verywell Health)

Verywell Health (3/1) “Gregory Katz, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, who was not involved in the study, told Verywell Health that he is not surprised by these findings” that suggest “that people who cram their sweat sessions into a weekend have body fat levels that resemble those who hit the gym throughout the week, as long as they’re hitting at least 150 minutes of exercise total.”

Experts Resoundingly Say A No-Sugar Diet Is No Good. (GQ)

GQ (3/1) “Sweetening agents are commonly added to thousands of processed products across our food system – even those that we don’t traditionally categorize as ‘sweet,’” said Heather Hodson, RDN, CDN, CDCES, dietitian nutritionist, Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.

How To Get Rid Of Forehead Wrinkles, According To Dermatologists. (Glamour Magazine)

Glamour Magazine (3/1) “‘Wrinkles are dynamic, so the more expressive we are the more lines we’re likely to have,’ says Elizabeth K. Hale, MD, clinical associate professor, the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology.”

Can Curling Up Too Much Or Spending The Day In Bed Be Harmful? (Gossipify)

Gossipify (3/3) “According to Alcibiades J. Rodriguez, MD, associate professor, Department of Neurology, our body ‘learns’ to stay awake in bed.”

Judging Casinos & Communities: Mitigate Gambling Impact On Asian-Americans. (New York Daily News)

The New York Daily News (3/3) John Liu, a state senator from Queens, and Grace Lee, an Assembly member from Manhattan, wrote, “In partnership with service providers like Hamilton Madison House, which operates behavioral health services in gambling prevention among Asian-Americans, and NYU Langone Health, we hosted a roundtable discussion in January to examine the impacts of gambling in Asian-American communities.”

Scientists Finally Determined Why Humans Don’t Have Tails. (Bro Bible)

Bro Bible (3/1) “According to a statement published by The Dark Matter Project at The Center for Synthetic Regulatory Genomics at NYU Langone Health,” a new study “identifies a unique DNA mutation located in the gene TBXT” which controls tail development in animals. “And, of course, there are differences, but this was like a lightning bolt,” said Jef D. Boeke, PhD, professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and a senior author of the study told Live Science. Itai Yanai, PhD, professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and a senior author of the study, said, “No one ever thought that, by just following our curiosity, we would make a mouse lose their tail by putting in the same mutation and then we see the mouse also has a neural tube defect.”
Also reporting is Skeptic Society Magazine (3/2).

Measles Vaccinations Given In ‘70s And ‘80s May Have Worn Off By Now, Doctor Warns. (Fox News)

Fox News (3/1) “Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, emphasized the importance of measles vaccinations – ‘particularly with the amount of circulating measles virus and underimmunized people coming into the U.S. at a time when there is a big measles surge around the world.’”

In a separate article, Fox News (3/2) “Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine calls on physicians to take a ‘very strong’ stance against assisted suicides.”

Obesity Is ‘Exploding,’ With More Than 12% Of People Classified As Obese Worldwide, Study Finds: ‘Big Trouble’. (New York Post)

The New York Post (3/3) “Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine said the world is in ‘big trouble’ in terms of undernutrition and obesity.”
Also reporting is The Blaze (3/3).

News from NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn

First Over-The-Counter Birth Control Pill In US Ships To Retailers, Costing About $20 For One-Month Pack. (CNN)

CNN (3/4) “Issues of cost and insurance coverage could still put Opill out of reach for some people, but overall, an over-the-counter birth control pill is a ‘great step forward,’ said Colleen Denny, MD, clinical associate professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn.

News from NYU Langone Hospital–Long Island

Dr. John Phair, Infectious Disease Specialist Who Confronted HIV With Steady Hand Amid Early Hysteria, Dies At 89. (Chicago Tribune)

The Chicago Tribune (3/1) Commenting on the news that Dr. John Phair, an infectious diseases professor “at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and an early leader in investigating HIV infection,” had “died of heart failure on Feb. 19 at the Westminster Place retirement community in Evanston,” Bruce W. Polsky, MD, professor, chair, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, associate dean of faculty, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, said of Phair, “He brought me and so many others of my generation into leadership positions and set us on a trajectory of early and sustained success in clinical research and academic medicine.”