AdventHealth Recent News
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A Novel Presentation of Finlay-Marks Syndrome: A Case Study of a Complex Multidisciplinary Approach in a Newborn
This AdventHealth case study outlines a diagnosis of Finlay-Marks Syndrome, a rare congenital defect with only 36 previously known cases in the world literature.
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Saving Lives One Kidney at a Time: A Reflection on Nearly Six Decades of Advancing Transplantation
The co-founder of AdventHealth’s Transplant Program, Robert Metzger, MD, reflects on nearly 60 years working in the transplant field. He discusses how the landscape of transplants has evolved from...
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AdventHealth Introduces MR-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor and Tremor-dominant Parkinson’s Disease
The AdventHealth Neuroscience Institute’s (NSI) Movement Disorder Program has treated the largest number of patients in Central Florida using the MR-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS), a new, non...
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New AdventHealth Study Examines the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Efficacy of Immunotherapy Treatment for Gynecological Cancers
AdventHealth Cancer Institute gynecologic oncologist Nathalie D. McKenzie, MD, recently launched a pilot feasibility study to begin exploring the interplay of the gut microbiome on the efficacy of...
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AdventHealth for Children One of First in Country to Use 7-D Surgical Navigation System to Enhance Pediatric Spine Surgery Safety
AdventHealth for Children is the first and only children’s hospital in Florida and the eastern U.S. to use the 7D Surgical FLASH™ Navigation System, which provides a quicker, radiation-free...
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The Sound of Healing: How Assembling an Orchestra can Improve Physician Well-Being
Assembled during the COVID-19 Delta surge, AdventHealth Central Florida Division physicians and clinicians came together to honor those lost during the pandemic through music. Through the first ever A...
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New Study Finds Ondansetron Use Associated with Lower COVID-19 Mortality
Physicians and scientists from AdventHealth and BERG recently completed a preprint study on MedRxiv.org that found ondansetron, a long-approved drug to treat nausea, is associated with lower COVID-19...
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Recognizing 10 years of excellence and innovation at AdventHealth Center for Interventional Endoscopy
In March 2022, the AdventHealth Center for Interventional Endoscopy (CIE) celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Reflecting on the 10-year milestone, Muhammad K. Hasan, MD, medical director of the...
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Reflections on Our Struggles Inside a COVID-19 ICU
Dr. Eduardo Oliveira takes readers inside the hospital and reflects on physicians struggles inside a COVID-19 ICU.
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Researchers Explore Molecular Responses to Exercise in Groundbreaking Trial
The Translational Research Institute (TRI) at AdventHealth Orlando is one of nine clinical sites nationwide partnering with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the Molecular Transducers of...
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Encouraging COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnant Women
When COVID-19 arrived in the U.S. in March 2020, I, like others, worried, not only for myself and my family, but as a perinatologist, I also feared for the health and safety of my pregnant patients. A...
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Complex Stroke Case Demonstrates Expanded Neurological Care at AdventHealth Celebration: Case Study
AdventHealth Celebration Stroke Medical Director Dr. Walter Morgan reports on a complex stroke case.