http://www.slrsurgery.orgSt. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, Department of Surgery, New York, NYCCopyright ? 2010 St. Luke's Roosevelt Department of Surgery.All rights reserved.Web Design by Webmaster Studiohttp://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_DietAndFitnessNews/worst-best-hospitals-weight-loss-surgery-named-healthgrades/story?id=13885248http://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_DietAndFitnessNews/worst-best-hospitals-weight-loss-surgery-named-healthgrades/story?id=13885248http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=652370http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=652370http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsANbPQzPBQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsANbPQzPBQ http://www.wfrv.com/healthwatch/Healthwatch-Breast-cancer-and-weight-gain-119339999.html?skipthumb=Yhttp://www.wfrv.com/healthwatch/Healthwatch-Breast-cancer-and-weight-gain-119339999.html?skipthumb=Yhttp://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/cancer/articles/2011/02/28/drop-in-breast-cancer-among-white-women-may-have-stalledhttp://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/cancer/articles/2011/02/28/drop-in-breast-cancer-among-white-women-may-have-stalledhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/health/research/09breast.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=alison+estabrook&st=csehttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/health/research/09breast.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=alison+estabrook&st=csehttp://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/women-breast-implants-worried-cancer-risk/story?id=12785619http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/women-breast-implants-worried-cancer-risk/story?id=12785619http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/roosevelt-hospital-surgeons-and-radiation-oncologists-perform-a-thoracic-first.aspx This past Thursday, the first Robotic case was performed at Roosevelt Hospital with the latest generation Da Vinci Si robot. This event marks the successful launch of this new technology ahead of schedule at Roosevelt Hospital. The case of Robotic Brachytherapy Seed Implantation represents a success of the collaborative efforts of the St. Luke’s – Roosevelt Robotics Program on many levels. This operation was created and developed by the surgeons and radiation oncologists at S...http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/roosevelt-hospital-surgeons-and-radiation-oncologists-perform-a-thoracic-first.aspxhttp://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=13640753http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=13640753http://www.parade.com/health/2010/10/17-real-men-do-wear-pink.htmlhttp://www.parade.com/health/2010/10/17-real-men-do-wear-pink.htmlhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/more-than-half-of-the-slr-surgical-staff-has-been-named-in-recent-editions-of-the-best-doctors-in-new-york.aspx A New York City research and information company, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., publishes an annual guidebook titled Top Doctors: New York Metro Area, which lists those whom Castle Connolly has determined to be in the top 10 percent of the region’s physicians—more than 6,000 in all. For the past thirteen years, Castle Connolly has been providing New York Magazine with a shorter version of this list for the magazine’s “Best Doctors” issue. Each year, Castle C...http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/more-than-half-of-the-slr-surgical-staff-has-been-named-in-recent-editions-of-the-best-doctors-in-new-york.aspxhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/plastic-surgeon-william-samson-md-featured-on-wcbs-tv-2-ny.aspx http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/plastic-surgeon-william-samson-md-featured-on-wcbs-tv-2-ny.aspxhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/breast-surgeon-alyssa-gillego-md-featured-on-wcbs-tv-2-ny.aspxhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/breast-surgeon-alyssa-gillego-md-featured-on-wcbs-tv-2-ny.aspxhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/slr-transplant-team-featured-on-abcs-2020.aspx 'Life Given Back' to New Mom by ABC News Colleague 'Little Blessed Baby' Inspires Kidney Donation, Leads to Remarkable Journey By BOB BROWN This is a story about two friends, a kidney transplant and the complications that arose along the way. We've come to take the transplants for granted. Around 17,000 kidney transplants are performed each year. This story was close to me because I knew both the donor and the recipient. The only person I did...http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/slr-transplant-team-featured-on-abcs-2020.aspxhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/new-york-daily-news-alan-i-benvenisty-a-sons-gift-of-himself-she-needed-kidney-his.aspx A SON'S GIFT OF HIMSELF She needed kidney - his OWEN MORITZ DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER With Nicole Bode. New York Daily News. New York, N.Y.: May 10, 2004. pg. 7 Full Text (421 words) Copyright Daily News, L.P. May 10, 2004 You'd have to buy an awful lot of flowers to beat Rolando Salvador's Mother's Day gift. The Manhattan computer programmer gave his 60-year-old mom the kidney that saved her life. "It was the gift of a...http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/new-york-daily-news-alan-i-benvenisty-a-sons-gift-of-himself-she-needed-kidney-his.aspxhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/new-york-daily-news-mitchell-bernstein-md-incontinence-doesnt-have-to-pin-you-down.aspx INCONTINENCE DOESN'T HAVE TO PIN YOU DOWN DR. ROCK POSITANO. New YorkDaily News. New York, N.Y.: Feb 22, 2004. pg. 26 Full Text (524 words) Copyright Daily News, L.P. Feb 22, 2004 Few of us can remember what it was like wearing diapers as a child. But, if you ever had to wear one as an adult, you would never forget it. Twenty-five million Americans are affected by the loss of bladder or bowel control, yet many go untreated because of a se...http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/new-york-daily-news-mitchell-bernstein-md-incontinence-doesnt-have-to-pin-you-down.aspxhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/new-york-daily-news-george-todd-m-d-often-unnoticed-killers-aneurysms-of-the-aorta.aspx OFTEN UNNOTICED KILLERS: ANEURYSMS OF THE AORTA; DR. ROCK POSITANO. It is a silent killer, and one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., but it is rarely looked for by doctors during physical exams. Too often people die from aortic aneurysms - a potentially life- threatening widening of a major blood vessel near the heart - without even suspecting they have the problem. But if an aneurysm ruptures, you have less than a one in five chance of survival. Lucille Ball, A...http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/new-york-daily-news-george-todd-m-d-often-unnoticed-killers-aneurysms-of-the-aorta.aspxhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/united-press-international-george-todd-m-d-aneurysm-risk-grow-with-aging-population.aspx Aneurysm risks grow with aging population Story from United Press International Copyright 2003 by United Press International (via ClariNet) Friday, 22-Aug-2003 9:04AM PDT NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- "Well, it looks like I found another place to take your pulse," Gordon Heggland's family doctor joked in 1990 as he conducted a routine annual physical exam on Heggland -- then age 60 and a chemical industry executive -- and found a potentially deadly condition. Tha...http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/united-press-international-george-todd-m-d-aneurysm-risk-grow-with-aging-population.aspxhttp://www.slrsurgery.org/news/press-release-robert-c-ashton-jr-md-and-joseph-j-derose-jr-m-d-st.aspx ST. LUKE'S-ROOSEVELT SURGEONS USE ROBOTICS IN TREATMENT OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS First Documented Case in the World to Remove Thymus Gland New York, NY - In yet another breakthrough application of robotic surgical technology, physicians at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center successfully removed the thymus gland of a 28-year-old patient recently diagnosed with myasthenia gravis. Cardiothoracic surgeons Robert Ashton, MD, and Joseph DeRose, MD, performed the first total...http://www.slrsurgery.org/news/press-release-robert-c-ashton-jr-md-and-joseph-j-derose-jr-m-d-st.aspx