CBTP

A child diagnosed with a brain tumor in the United States faces very different odds depending on their racial and ethnic background. White children with certain pediatric brain tumors survive an average of 62 months after diagnosis, compared with 41 months for Black children and 40 months for Hispanic children. That gap is the starting point for a ...

Minimally invasive

"Minimally invasive spine surgery" is frequently requested by patients and lauded by surgeons, but it has lacked a concrete definition. Until now, there has been no standardized way to compare just how invasive one procedure is relative to another. 

Rethinking

Mohammed A. Fouda, MD, of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, working alongside Caitlin Hoffman, MD, co-director of the craniosynostosis program, has recently published five studies on an idea a decade in the making: internalizing the craniofacial distraction systems by replacing the external activation ports, by a contactless, transdermal magnet-actuated system. 

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