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UK-DTOP tool promises improved outcomes for kidney transplant recipients

A new advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tool, developed by renal doctors internationally, represents a significant step forward in predicting and potentially improving outcomes for UK kidney transplant patients.

22 Oct 2024

Cleveland Clinic integrates AI-powered platform to enhance digestive disease care

To expand access to care for patients, Cleveland Clinic has added Ayble Health, an AI-enabled digital care platform, to its multidisciplinary care model for the treatment of chronic digestive diseases.

20 Oct 2024

Historic achievement in combined face and whole-eye transplant

An explanation of how an NYU Langone Health surgical team performed the world's first combined face and whole-eye transplantation will be presented at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2024 in San Francisco, California.

18 Oct 2024

New grant aims to transform treatment for liver cancer

Currently, there are a few available treatment options for liver cancer, including a combination of immunotherapies and a class of drugs known as tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), but their long-term effects are limited.

17 Oct 2024

Study shows safety of kidney transplants among those with HIV infections

It is just as safe and effective for people with HIV in need of kidney transplantation to get their organ from donors who are also HIV positive as it is from donors who are not infected with the virus, a new study shows.

16 Oct 2024

NYU Langone researchers address the challenges of heart failure in cancer patients

A new scientific statement issued today by the Heart Failure Society of America highlights a critical connection between heart failure (HF) and cancer, with shared mechanisms contributing to the incidence and progression of both diseases.

16 Oct 2024

Genetic insights transform treatment for children with developmental disorders

Thousands of children with severe developmental disorders have benefited from more targeted treatments and support with genetic insights from the large-scale Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) study, finds a new study.

15 Oct 2024

New method aims to improve lung transplant access for hard-to-match candidates

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) have developed a new method that could potentially help provide better access to lung transplant for transplant candidates who are hard to match because of their blood type or height.

15 Oct 2024

Renowned pancreatic surgeon Dr. Katherine A. Morgan joins NYU Langone

Katherine A. Morgan, MD, recognized internationally for her expertise in pancreatic surgery, is joining NYU Langone Health as a professor in the Department of Surgery and as section chief of pancreas surgery in the Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery.

14 Oct 2024

Evaluating allogeneic transplant for TP53 mutated acute myeloid leukemia

A new editorial was published in Oncotarget's Volume 15 on October 1, 2024, entitled, "Transplant or no transplant for TP53 mutated AML."

12 Oct 2024

Pilot study shows impact of infection control staffing shortages on patient safety

Inadequate infection prevention and control staffing levels are associated with higher rates of healthcare-associated infections, according to a new study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control.

10 Oct 2024

Baylor scientist earns NIH grant for personalized microbiome treatments

Baylor University researcher Aaron Wright, Ph.D., has earned a $5.6 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Transformative Research Award for a project that he and collaborators hope could lead to personalized – and revolutionary – treatments for gut microbiome diseases like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn's, Ulcerative Colitis and more.

9 Oct 2024

Researchers uncover key bacteria driving success of fecal microbiota transplants

Fecal microbiota transplants, or FMTs, are a magic bullet for patients with recurring infections from Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), but researchers are only beginning to understand why.

9 Oct 2024

Ethnic and racial disparities in accessibility to kidney transplants

The study emphasizes the critical need for personalized treatments to address the distinct challenges encountered by each ethnic and racial group along the renal transplantation care continuum.

9 Oct 2024

Liver cancer patients gain clarity on surgery options through precision medicine tool

Duke-NUS alumnus Dr Marjorie Hoang (Class of 2023) and her mentor, Professor Pierce Chow, have brought clarity to the complex decision-making process patients diagnosed with intermediate-stage liver cancer and their doctors face by creating an algorithm that can accurately calculate the likely overall survival and recurrence-free survival following surgery.

9 Oct 2024

New cell therapy offers effective treatment for patients with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

A new cell therapy, targeting CD7 on leukaemia cells, gives a potentially effective treatment for patients with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) who have exhausted all standard treatment options.

7 Oct 2024

Houston Methodist researchers join national consortium to develop herpesvirus vaccine

Houston Methodist researchers will be part of a national consortium funded by an up to $49 million award from the U.S. Government's Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop a vaccine against two of the most common and destructive strains of herpesviruses that latently infect a majority of Americans and can lead to acute infections, multiple forms of cancer, autoimmune disease and birth defects.

3 Oct 2024

Study reveals impact of policy changes on pediatric liver transplant outcomes

Liver transplantation is currently the only cure for pediatric acute liver failure (PALF), a rapidly progressing and life-threatening condition that can affect previously healthy children.

3 Oct 2024

Doctors urging conference boycotts over abortion bans face uphill battle

Soon after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its Roe v. Wade abortion ruling in 1973, Laura Esserman used her high school graduation speech to urge her classmates to vote for the Equal Rights Amendment to expand women's access to property, divorce, and abortion.

3 Oct 2024

Frailty linked to diminished quality of life in cancer and transplant survivors

A new research paper was published on the in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science), Volume 16, Issue 18 on September 26, 2024, entitled, "Frailty and pre-frailty associated with long-term diminished physical performance and quality of life in breast cancer and hematopoietic cell transplant survivors."

2 Oct 2024