Provider CornerFEATURING: June 30, 2022The Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles: Delivering World-Class Pediatric Cardiac CareThe Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is a preeminent referral center for diseases of the heart and circulation in childhood, attracting families from across the United States and around the world. Each component of care has been designed with children and families …
Penn Researchers Shorten Manufacturing Time for CAR T Cell Therapy
Provider CornerFEATURING: June 9, 2022Penn Researchers Shorten Manufacturing Time for CAR T Cell TherapyA new approach allowed scientists to alter immune cells within 24 hours versus the standard of up to two weeks PHILADELPHIA— A new approach from Penn Medicine researchers could cut the time it takes to alter patients’ immune cells for infusion back into the body to find and attack …
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Heart Surgeons Use Novel Occluder with a Metal-Free Frame on a Patient with ASD or Hole in the Heart Under Pivotal U.S. IDE Trial
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital recently announced the successful treatment of a patient with atrial septal defects (ASD), or opening defect in the wall of the heart that separates the top two chambers of the heart, using the first transcatheter ASD occluder with a metal-free frame.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Overview
Provider CornerFEATURING:May 12, 2022Brigham and Women’s Hospital OverviewWith more than 800 inpatient beds, approximately 50,000 inpatient stays and 2.25 million outpatient encounters annually, Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s physicians provide expert care in virtually every medical and surgical specialty to patients locally, regionally and around the world. An international leader in basic, clinical and translational research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital has …
GI Genius arms doctors with new tool to help detect colorectal cancer
Provider CornerFEATURING:April 28, 2022GI Genius arms doctors with new tool to help detect colorectal cancerDr. Toufic Kachaamy uses GI Genius, a new tool that leverages artificial intelligence to help doctors more clearly and quickly identify polyps, or lesions in the colon. It’s often a good idea to get a second opinion or have a second set of eyes look something …
Innovation Center Continues to Reshape the Future of Clinical Care
Approximately one month before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Houston Methodist Center for Innovation opened its first laboratory space for clinicians and developers to test new technologies.
Newborn screening for critical congenital heart disease serves as vital safety net
One of the nation’s longest-running newborn screening programs for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) finds that screening continues to serve as a necessary tool to help identify every child with CCHD — even in states where the majority of babies are diagnosed before birth.
New Study Finds “Off the Shelf CAR-T” Promising for Certain Lymphoma Patients
Allogeneic CAR T therapy, often referred to as “off the shelf” CAR T involves using T cells from donors’ circulating blood or sometimes umbilical cord blood.
When Experience and Innovation Counts: Northwestern Medicine Performs 1st Known Double-Lung Transplant on COVID-19 Patient Using Lungs from COVID-19 Donor
One of the first-known “COVID to COVID” double-lung transplants
Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute Heart Specialists Joined National Study Looking at Potential Treatment for Cardiac Condition
Do you experience frequent chest pain (angina) but have been told that you have normal (or non-obstructed) coronary arteries? Cardiology experts are standing by at Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute ready to diagnose this cardiac condition.