NYU Langone announced on May 21 the creation of the Mignone Women’s Health Collaborative, building upon the system’s health care services for women and deepening coordination between specialists who work together to treat women at every stage of life.
Alec C. Kimmelman was named CEO and dean of NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
One or two doses of psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, may improve the mental health of cancer patients when accompanied by psychotherapy, a new report suggests. A second new study found that treatment with psilocybin resulted in lasting, positive personality changes in patients with alcohol use disorder.
A study in women with breast cancer suggests that low oral doses of minoxidil, taken during or after cancer treatment, appear to regrow hair in most patients and without causing any serious heart-related side effects that require additional therapies or hospitalization.
Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which tumors evade chemotherapy drugs designed to starve and kill them, a new study in Nature Metabolism shows.
Collecting images of suspicious-looking skin growths and sending them off-site for specialists to analyze is as accurate in identifying skin cancers as having a dermatologist examine them in person, a new study shows.
A study led by researchers at NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center has highlighted the role of DNA methylation in the increased risk of several cancers, including breast cancer, among rescuers and survivors of the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City.