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Weill Cornell Medicine Awarded $9 Million Prestigious Grant for Mantle Cell Lymphoma Research
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $9 million Program Project Grant (P01) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to better understand how and why patients with an aggressive and incurable form of lymphoma initially respond to treatment, only to relapse over time. The findings may enable investigators to develop superior therapies that are effective, well tolerated and tailored to individual patients with mantle cell lymphoma. Take a closer look.
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NYU School of Medicine Releases Largest-Ever Open-Source Dataset to Speed Up MRIs Using Artificial Intelligence in Collaboration with Facebook AI Research
NYU Langone’s Department of Radiology, through the NYU School of Medicine, is releasing the first large-scale MRI dataset of its kind as part of fastMRI, a collaborative effort with Facebook AI Research (FAIR) to speed up MRI scans with artificial intelligence (AI). Take a closer look.
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Neurology |
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons: Untangling Alzheimer’s Disease
Initially, scientists thought Alzheimer’s was a simple, straightforward problem to solve. “We hoped that there would be one big mutation [that caused the disease] and everything would be fixed,” says Richard Mayeux, MD, the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Epidemiology and chair of neurology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Take a closer look.
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SUNY Upstate Medical University: Researchers Find the First Risk Genes for ADHD
A major international collaboration headed by researchers from the Danish iPSYCH project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium has for the first time identified genetic variants which increase the risk of ADHD. Take a closer look.
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Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons: The Science Behind a Soft Caress
Touch – to scientists – remains our most enigmatic sense. The cells and molecules underlying our senses of vision, hearing, smell, and taste have been known for 50 or more years, but the fundamental machinery used by mammals to detect touch is just beginning to be identified. Take a closer look.
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Cancer |
NYU School of Medicine: Reliance on ‘YouTube Medicine’ May Be Dangerous for Those Concerned About Prostate Cancer
The most popular YouTube videos on prostate cancer often offer misleading or biased medical information that poses potential health risks to patients, an analysis of the social media platform shows. Led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, the study of the 150 most-viewed YouTube videos on the disease found that 77 percent had factual errors or biased content in either the video or its comments section. Take a closer look.
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Weill Cornell Medicine: Study Reveals New Role for Methotrexate in Fighting Cancer
A study of the dual pathways that process the essential vitamin folate by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators unexpectedly revealed a new way the cancer drug methotrexate works and may suggest strategies to boost its cancer-killing effects. Take a closer look.
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Diabetes |
Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at University at Buffalo: Can Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes Benefit Patients With Type 1?
A University at Buffalo researcher who did the first pilot studies on how drugs developed for Type 2 diabetes patients might benefit adults with Type 1 is launching a major, interventional study with 114 patients in Buffalo, New York and Glasgow, Scotland. Take a closer look.
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Opioids |
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University : Study Reveals Pregnancy-Associated Deaths Involving Opioids More Than Doubled
The opioid crisis in the United States appears to be gravely affecting more pregnant and postpartum women. In a study of pregnancy-associated deaths of women from 2007 to 2016, researchers found that mortality involving opioids either during pregnancy or up to one year post-pregnancy more than doubled during that time. Take a closer look.
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Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at University at Buffalo: In Buffalo Emergency Departments, a Better Way to Treat Opioid Use Disorder
An innovative, cost-effective program at more than a dozen hospitals in Western New York provides medication-assisted treatment to opioid use disorder patients in emergency departments (EDs) and rapidly transitions them into long-term treatment at a community clinic, all within about 48 hours. Take a closer look.
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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Sanofi, Sema4, Mount Sinai Collaborate on Largest Asthma Study of its Kind
Sema4, a patient-centered predictive health company, and the Mount Sinai Health System today announced the launch of a five-year collaborative study with Sanofi designed to provide new insights into the biological mechanisms and other factors implicated in asthma. Take a closer look.
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New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine: Saving the Hearts of Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death for patients with chronic kidney disease. As kidney function decreases, vascular calcification (the accumulation of calcium salts in the tissue of blood vessels) increases and causes arteries to lose their elasticity. Take a closer look.
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Albany Med Pediatrician Offers Insights for ‘Selecting Appropriate Toys for Young Children in the Digital Era’
With the holiday season in full swing, young children are bombarded with television ads promoting this year’s trendiest toys and electronic gadgets. In a clinical report issued by the American Academy for Pediatrics – to be published in the January 2019 issue of the journal Pediatrics – an Albany Med pediatrician offers some important advice for parents concerned with appropriate toys to purchase for their young children. Take a closer look.
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Study Identifies How Hantaviruses Infect Lung Cells
Hantaviruses cause severe and sometimes fatal respiratory infections, but how they infect lung cells has been a mystery. In today’s issue of Nature, an international team including researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine reports that hantaviruses gain entry to lung cells by “unlocking” a cell-surface receptor called protocadherin-1 (PCDH1). Deleting this receptor made lab animals highly resistant to infection. The findings show that targeting PCDH1 could be a useful strategy against deadly hantavirus pulmonary syndrome(HPS). Take a closer look.
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New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine: Mouth Guards Get a Digital Upgrade and Aid Concussion Study
The word “concussion” can conjure up images of a football quarterback getting sacked on the field or two soccer players colliding heads on the pitch. But concussions are a risk in all sports-including lacrosse. To make the sport safer for players everywhere, NYIT Center for Sports Medicine partnered with the men’s lacrosse team on a pioneering study to understand the effect hits have on players. Take a closer look.
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Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University: When NBA Players Tweet Late at Night, They Play Worse Basketball
A new study to be published online in the journal Sleep Health reveals that late-night social media use by NBA players is linked to poorer next-day performance on the court. The study builds on preliminary research from 2017 about players who posted late-night tweets. Take a closer look.
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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai World’s First Cannabis Chromosome Map Reveals the Plant’s Evolutionary History
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), bioactive substances produced by cannabis and sought by medical patients and recreational users, were created thanks to ancient colonization of the plant’s genome by viruses, which researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Toronto report that they have identified for the first time. Take a closer look.
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Events |
CUNY School of Medicine: Research Day 2018
Over 30 posters were presented at the CUNY School of Medicine’s annual student research day held on November 14, 2018. Medical students eagerly sharing their projects and discoveries with the campus community as their faculty mentors proudly watched. A wide range of projects were discussed and included innovations in medical education, neuroscience, cancer, and population and community health issues. Many of these research projects were sponsored by Lipkin, Rudin and Davis scholarship funds. Take a closer look.
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Grants |
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell: Bioelectronic Medicine Researcher Awarded $1.4M NIH Grant
Zucker School of Medicine professor of medicine and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research investigator, Larry Miller, MD, has received a one-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and test a non-invasive method that accesses nerves in the chest and abdomen. Take a closer look.
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine Receives $172 Million in NIH Funding in Fiscal Year 2018
Capping off another successful research year,faculty members at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore, received $172 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in federal fiscal year 2018. (Einstein also received an additional $5.4 million from select federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which is administered through the NIH). Take a closer look.
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Faculty News |
New York Medical College: Dr. Abraham is at the Cutting Edge of Obesity Research
With 74 percent of the U.S. male population and 67 percent of the female population considered overweight or obese, America’s obesity epidemic is considered by many, the greatest health challenge our nation has yet to face. As obesity rates continue to rise, so does the focus on obesity research, and at the cutting edge of this research is Nader G. Abraham,Ph.D., Dr. H.C., FAHA, professor of medicine and pharmacology. Take a closer look.
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Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell: Dr. Stacey E. Rosen Receives Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award
Stacey E. Rosen, MD, vice president for the Katz Institute for Women’s Health at Northwell Health and professor of cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, was honored with the “Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award” at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2018 Scientific Session in Chicago on November 10. Take a closer look.
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