First-Ever Combined Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant Gives New Hope to Patient with Terminal Illness
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery in a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure—a confluence of advances that showcase the possibility and hope of modern medicine. Doctors…
Genetics of Nearby Healthy Tissue May Help Catch Lung Cancer’s Return
Genetic information collected from seemingly healthy tissue near lung tumors may be a better predictor of whether cancer will come back after treatment than analysis of the tumors themselves, according to new research led by NYU Langone Health and its…
NYU Langone Health ranked No. 1 in the Nation for Quality and Patient Safety
NYU Langone Health has once again been named No. 1 in the nation for quality and patient safety by Vizient, Inc., a leading healthcare performance improvement organization that determines its rankings based on mortality and infection rates, patient experience scores,…
Two-Month Study of Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation Gives New Hope to the Future of the Organ Supply
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. The procedure, known as a xenotransplant, which involves the transplant of an animal organ…
