If xenotransplantation is the future, then the future is closer than we think. It's now priority to many transplantation surgeons and experts because it could address many of the barriers that have existed in organ access for decades.
Over the past five years, the lung cancer survival rate has increased by 14 percent. A large part of that change is driven by advances in immunotherapy—typically implemented alongside treatments like chemotherapy to give patients the best chance at positive outcomes.
When making decisions about heart surgery, you would want all the facts. Putting your trust, and heart, in someone else’s hands is not easy. You’d probably want to know how good the surgeon is—here's what that means objectively.
When things go wrong in the OR, it can have lasting effects on everyone involved. For surgeons dealing with an adverse outcome, the aftermath can be overwhelmed with feelings of grief and guilt. This is where the new formalized peer-to-peer support program will step in to help.
A beautiful story of how siblings Dr. Steven Stylianos and Critical Care Nurse Lisa Richardson ended up sharing a passion for taking care of children and have worked together to bring the best possible care to their patients and families.
Born with more than a dozen holes in his heart, Maverick Waler was on the path toward transplant, until he traveled across the country to NYP/Columbia Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, where specialists saved his heart and gave him the chance for a normal life.
Dr. Lloyd Ratner discusses the logistical ins and outs of transplantation—the latest changes to allocation boundaries for donor organs, all that’s transformed for the better, and everything that still needs to be done.
Endocrinologist Dr. Hyesoo Lowe and Surgeon Kazuki Sugahara discuss innovative drug delivery systems and their potential usefulness in treating pancreatic cancer
