NYU Langone Health

107 articles about NYU Langone Health

• Vizient Announces Top Performers in Clinical Quality, Supplier Diversity and Environmentally Preferred Sourcing Excellence

  9/22/2023

  Vizient, Inc. today announced 2023’s top performers in clinical quality and supply chain excellence.

• Newfound Brain Circuit Explains Why Infant Cries Prompt Milk Release

  9/20/2023

  Hearing the sound of a newborn's wail can trigger the release of oxytocin, a brain chemical that controls breast-milk release in mothers, a new study in rodents shows.

• Patients Recall Death Experiences After Cardiac Arrest, According to NYU Langone Health

  9/15/2023

  Up to an hour after their hearts had stopped, some patients revived by cardiopulmonary resuscitation had clear memories afterward of experiencing death, and had brain patterns while unconscious linked to thought and memory.

• Two-Month Study of Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation Gives New Hope to the Future of the Organ Supply

  9/14/2023

  After 61 days of observation, NYU Langone Health doctors this month completed the longest-documented case of a genetically engineered pig kidney functioning in a human body.

• Teleneurology Challenges Met by Training Curriculum

  9/6/2023

  A new physician-training system in telehealth simulates key parts of traditional, in-person neurological exams that use little reflex hammers, pinpricks, and flashlights to test nerve function.

• Newly Engineered Versions of Bacterial Enzyme Reveal How Antibiotics Could Be More Potent

  8/30/2023

  Modern medicine depends on antibiotics to treat infections by disabling targets inside bacterial cells.

• Despite Fears to the Contrary, Canadian Wildfire Smoke Exposure Was Not Much Worse Than A Bad Pollen Day in New York City

  8/23/2023

  New Yorkers can apparently breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now. Their exposure to the smoke in June 2023 from Canadian wildfires led to only a slightly higher bump in visits to New York City hospital emergency departments for breathing problems or asthma attacks than what is seen on days when pollen counts are high.

• Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation Performing Optimally After 32 Days in Human Body

  8/16/2023

  Surgeons at NYU Langone Health have transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney that continues to function well after 32 days in a man declared dead by neurologic criteria and maintained with a beating heart on ventilator support.

• "Ebb and Flow" Brain Mechanism That Drives Learning Identified

  8/9/2023

  Researchers have long thought that rewards like food or money encourage learning in the brain by causing the release of the "feel-good" hormone dopamine, known to reinforce storage of new information.

• Diversity Plays a Key Role in Black Americans Trust of Videos About Prostate Cancer

  7/19/2023

  Black Americans are 1.6 times more likely to believe medical information presented by a Black physician or patient compared with information presented by a White speaker, a new study shows.

• Lupus Flare-Ups Strongly Linked to Specific Bacterial Growth in Gut

  6/27/2023

  Recurrent bouts of systemic lupus erythematosus, marked by the body's immune system attack of its own tissues, closely tracked with measureable upticks in growth in the gut of a certain species of bacteria.

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  ASCO in Review: Oncologists See Practice-Changing, Affirming Data

  6/8/2023

  With the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in the history books, BioSpace takes a look back at the presented data that oncologists think will be most practice-changing.

• New "AI Doctor" Predicts Hospital Readmission and Other Health Outcomes

  6/7/2023

  An artificial intelligence computer program can read physicians' notes to accurately estimate patients' risk of death, length of hospital stay, and other factors important to care.

• A Pair of Brain Regions Prompts Females to Kill or Care For Their Young

  6/7/2023

  A middle-brain region tied to the control of emotions likely prompts females to kill their young, a new study in mice shows.

• NYU Langone Health and Deerfield Management Launch Amethyst Innovations with Up To $130 Million to Accelerate Commercialization of Biomedical Discoveries

  6/6/2023

  NYU Langone Health and Deerfield Management Company, a healthcare investment firm, announced the launch of a research and development collaboration designed to accelerate the commercialization of biomedical discoveries.

• Study Helps Explain What Drives Psoriasis Severity and Offers Clues as to How Disease May Spread to Other Body Parts

  6/2/2023

  Beneath and beyond the reddish, flaky lesions that form in the skin of those with psoriasis, mild and severe forms of the disease can be told apart by the activity of key cells and signaling pathways, a new study shows.

• Experimental Decoy Protects Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection

  5/31/2023

  Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the work is based on how the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, uses its spike protein to attach to a protein on the surface of the cells that line human lungs.

• New Tool May Help Spot "Invisible" Brain Damage in College Athletes

  5/30/2023

  An artificial intelligence computer program that processes magnetic resonance imaging can accurately identify changes in brain structure that result from repeated head injury, a new study in student athletes shows.

• RECOVER Study Offers Expanded Working Definition of Long COVID

  5/25/2023

  A study led by the National Institutes of Health's RECOVER Initiative and supported by NYU Langone Health, home to the effort's Clinical Science Core, provides an expanded working definition of long COVID.

• Researchers Reveal Newfound DNA Repair Mechanism

  5/17/2023

  A new study adds to an emerging, radically new picture of how bacterial cells continually repair faulty sections of their DNA.