Ani Nalbandian, a cardiologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, and her colleagues collated nine such studies for a review published on 22 March.
Results from a phase 2 clinical trial led by Columbia cancer researchers suggest that a combination of two drugs has potential to improve treatment of uterine leiomyosarcoma.
“This, alongside other studies, is suggestive that there’s not a florid amount of virus in the brain in patients who have died,” said Kiran Thakur, MD, a neurologist at Columbia University.
Infected early in the pandemic, Tomoaki Kato, MD, a renowned transplant surgeon at Columbia, was soon on life support and one of the sickest patients in his own hospital.
Larisa Geskin's first lobbying success led New York state to prohibit indoor tanning for children. Now she's urging Medicaid to help low-income families access sunscreen.
“We see this every day, that our patients are typically like Lou Gehrig,” says Dr. Neil Shneider, director of the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS Center at Columbia University.
Christine Hsu Rohde, MD, MPH, professor of surgery, succeeds Robert Grant, MD, as chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at CUIMC.
