NYU Langone Health

Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD, has been appointed director of Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health.

A 65-year-old right-hand dominant woman with no reported past medical history presented with left clavicular pain and wound drainage 8 days after she was struck by a motor vehicle in her home country of Guyana.

Preoperative patient optimization prior to adult spinal deformity corrective surgery may improve outcomes, satisfaction and cost utilization, according to presented results.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — In this video, Joshua C. Rozell, MD, discusses the physiologic burden on surgeons performing total hip arthroplasty and how this burden increases with patient BMI.

HONOLULU — World Trade Center firefighters with lung disease showed increases in Bacteroides ovatus after 6 months on a low-calorie Mediterranean diet, according to a presentation at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Michael J. Zelefsky, MD, has been appointed director of brachytherapy for NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — According to presented results, concurrent subacromial decompression with arthroscopic rotator cuff repair may reduce the risk of revision surgery at 2 years.

Nina D’Abreo, MD, has been appointed chief of the division of hematology and medical oncology at NYU Langone Health Perlmutter Cancer Center — Sunset Park.

Results from the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual Cancer Progress Report revealed that the age-adjusted overall cancer death rate in the U.S. fell by 33% between 1991 and 2020.

Obesity reduced the odds for ICU mortality among patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.