Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center have shown that complications stemming from colorectal surgery decreased after introducing a national quality improvement program.

According to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, common drug treatments that lead to changes in gut fungi can persistently exacerbate allergic airway diseases such as asthma.

As David L. Carr-Locke, MD, sees it, the identification of a previously unknown anatomical structure in the human body harkens back to the medical discoveries of centuries past.

The primary goal of the study is to see whether adding radiation therapy to an intensive chemotherapy regimen will improve the survival rate of patients with borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.