Physicians at Weill Cornell Medicine reviewed the diagnostic criteria for diabetes in pregnancy; types of therapies available to prevent hyperglycemia; and strategies for reaching inpatient glycemic targets during the peripartum period.

Young people with a history of strokes caused by blood clots should be evaluated for a patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure, according to Hooman Kamel, MD, a neurologist with expertise in stroke at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.

A multicenter clinical trial has found that minimally invasive transcatheter mitral valve repair significantly reduced hospitalizations and mortality for heart failure patients with moderate-to-severe or severe functional mitral regurgitation.

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have shown that hospitals that routinely perform a heart valve replacement procedure that requires open heart surgery are more likely to adopt a newer, less invasive technique.

Patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), a life-threatening and progressive form of heart failure, are finding treatment with the drug tafamidis.

Today, there are more options for the treatment of bladder cancer than ever before. Urologic oncologists in the Department of Urology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia are established experts in both robotic and laparoscopic techniques for the treatment of urologic tumors, specifically bladder, kidney, prostate, and testicular cancer.

In kidney transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy is now the standard of care for living donors, a technique not widely available until the late 1990s.

While osteoarthritis is the most common joint disease in the world, we have extremely few effective conservative treatments available. Dr. Gellhorn is hopeful that he has found just such a solution.