Mailed self-collection kits improved cervical cancer screening rates among racial or ethnic minority populations, according to a study published June 6 in JAMA Internal Medicine. For the study, researchers conducted a randomized clinical trial of 2,474 patients at a safety-net…
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In April, Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham added oncology care to its Home Hospital program to alleviate capacity issues within acute care facilities, while also providing a way for cancer patients to benefit from remaining close to their support systems…
Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope has called for “bold” changes to address the rising cancer rates among women younger than 50. Cancer incidence rates among women younger than 50 is 82% higher than incidence rates among men of the same…
Male athletes who exercised more than 3,000 metabolic equivalents of task-minutes per week had a higher likelihood of experiencing subclinical coronary atherosclerosis, according to a study published June 4 in JACC: Advances. One of the study’s authors, Leandro Slipczuk, MD,…
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health has appointed Bradley Taylor, MD, as chief of cardiac surgery for the system’s North region. Dr. Taylor will also serve as the chief of quality and outcomes for Baptist Health Heart & Vascular Care, according…
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3 patients, 1 heart: New York-Presbyterian surgeons perform pediatric 'split-root domino' transplant
In July 2024, a team of surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Children’s Hospital of New York—Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital performed a split-root domino partial heart transplant, saving the life of three children over the course of 24 hours. The procedures were led…
Green Bay, Wis.-based Emplify Health and Milwaukee-based Marquette University have partnered to establish a program that aims to train mental health professionals for northeast Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. Funded by the…
Surgeons at Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine’s Heart and Vascular Institute performed the world’s first robotic transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant and aortic valve replacement. The procedure was performed May 27 by Vinay Badhwar, MD, executive chair of the WVU Heart…
Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medicine has appointed Rabih Chaer, MD, as chief of vascular and endovascular surgery, and as an associate professor of surgery. Dr. Chaer previously served as division chief of vascular surgery and co-director of the Heart and Vascular…
Kentucky had the highest incidence rate across all cancer types between 2017 and 2021, according to data published by the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society used data from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries to calculate…