News from NYU Langone Health
Doctors Combine A Pig Kidney Transplant And A Heart Device In A Bid To Extend Woman’s Life. (AP)
The AP (4/24) Doctors at NYU Langone Health “have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart.” Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor of Surgery, chair, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, NYU Langone Transplant Institute, “recounted cheers in the operating room as the organ immediately started making urine.” While the early outlook is good, “‘we’re not off the hook yet,’ cautioned” Nader Moazami, MD, professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, chief, Division of Heart and Lung Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, NYU Langone Transplant Institute, the “cardiac surgeon who implanted the heart pump.”
Scientific American (4/24) ‘“Our success in this one patient is going to open up a lot of possibilities for the thousands of patients out there who have some combination of problems with the heart and the kidney,’ says” Nader Moazami, MD, professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, chief, Division of Heart and Lung Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, NYU Langone Transplant Institute, “who performed the LVAD surgery.”
PBS NewsHour (4/24) “There’s no way to predict her long-term outcome but she’s shown no sign of organ rejection so far,” said Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor of Surgery, chair, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, NYU Langone Transplant Institute.
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Among those providing broadcast coverage were CBS (4/24), NY1-TV (4/24),WABC-TV New York (4/24), NY1-TV (4/24), 12-TV (4/24), and WNYW-TV (4/24).
Research In Context: Treating Depression. (NIH Research Matters)
NIH Research Matters (4/23) Stephen Ross, MD, clinical professor, Departments of Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in 2016 “led a clinical trial examining whether psilocybin-assisted therapy could reduce depression and anxiety in people with cancer” that “showed that a single psilocybin session led to substantial reductions in anxiety and depression compared with a placebo.”
Understaffed Nursing Homes In Disadvantaged Neighborhoods More Likely To Overuse Antipsychotics. (Scienmag)
Scienmag (4/24) “Nursing homes in disadvantaged communities are more likely to overmedicate residents with antipsychotics, especially homes that are understaffed, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open,” whose “authors include Erinn M. Hade, PhD, associate professor, Department of Population Health, and Steven C. Friedman, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Urology.”
Daytime Brain Wave Patterns May Explain How Memories Are Stored During Sleep. (Sleep Foundation)
Sleep Foundation (4/23) “In a recent study, researchers at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine proposed a mechanism to explain how the brain chooses which memories to keep,” with senior study author György Buzsáki, MD, PhD, the Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, and professor, Department of Neurology, explaining, “Our study finds that sharp wave-ripples are the physiological mechanism used by the brain to ‘decide’ what to keep and what to discard.”
NYU Langone Health Expert Discusses US Shortage Of Speech Therapists. (NBC News)
NBC News (4/23) Director of speech and language pathology at NYU Langone Health’s Rusk Rehabilitation, Mary Regina Reilly, MS, CCC-SLP, discussed the “critical shortage” of speech therapists in the US, which “some experts say has been growing rapidly since the onset of the pandemic.”
‘This Is Long Overdue’: Physicians React To The FTCs’ Noncompete Ban. (Becker's ASC Review)
Becker’s ASC Review (4/24) Richard H. White, MD, clinical assistant professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine, “I do support the FTC’s decision to ban noncompetes. This is long overdue.”
Gyms, Superstores And More: 3 Medical Facilities Entering Vacated Spaces. (Becker's ASC Review)
Becker’s ASC Review (4/24) “Developers have planned a 90,000-square-foot medical office building at a mall in Garden City, N.Y., with prospective tenants including New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, New York City-based NYU Langone Health, and Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Catholic Health.”
Choosing Therapy For A Patient With Moderate To Severe Crohn’s Disease. (MedPage Today)
MedPage Today (4/24) Jordan E. Axelrad, MD, MPH, associate professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, writes, “Tapering the budesonide dosage is recommended in patients with mild Crohn’s disease who have achieved an initial clinical remission, with the goal of discontinuation,” followed “by clinical observation and ileocolonoscopy in 6 months to a year.”
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Which Drug For Which Patient? (MDEdge)
MDEdge (4/24) Holly F. Lofton, MD, clinical associate professor, Departments of Surgery, Division of Bariatric Surgery, and Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, “shares the methods she uses to determine which anti-obesity drug is best for which patient.
ChatGPT Displays Potential For Genetic Counseling In Gynecologic Oncology. (OncLive)
OncLive (4/24) In an interview, Jharna M. Patel, MD, research fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perlmutter Cancer Center, “discussed the rationale for utilizing ChatGPT to answer genetic counseling questions in the gynecologic oncology field, expanded on the findings from this study, and detailed the next steps of researching AI platforms for potential use in clinical practice.”
Why Is One Breast Bigger Than the Other?
Health Central “However, ‘most women with normal lactation will have more or less a similar amount of milk produced on both sides,’ says Yelena Novik, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center.”
Have Male Urinary Tract Symptoms? An App May Offer Relief. (WebMD)
WebMD (4/24) “‘As men age into their late 40s and they get into their 50s, they start noticing that the force of the stream goes down, and as it goes down, the bladder has to generate more and more force and pressure to get the same amount of urine out,’ said Seth D. Cohen, MD, MPH, clinical associate professor, Department of Urology, and director of the Men’s Health Show on Sirius XM 110 radio.”
Bird Flu Virus Found In Grocery Store Milk, But No Risk To Customers, FDA Says. (Fox News)
Fox News (4/24) “Fox News medical contributor Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine discusses “what to know about bird flu.”
In a separate article on Fox News (4/24) Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, writes, “I have always called cancer the personal terrorist, meaning that our fears of cancer go beyond the actual risk, which is, of course, not to say that the risks of the number two killer in the U.S. (over 600,000 deaths per year) aren’t quite real.”
In a separate article on Fox News (4/24) Discussing a study showing that “patients who are treated by a female physician could live longer and have a reduced risk of hospitalization,” Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine “was not involved in the study but called the findings ‘fascinating.’”
