On October 14, 2022, 13-year-old Zoe Rodriguez came into the AdventHealth for Children emergency room with severe neck pain. Upon evaluation, we found a rare 5 cm benign dermoid tumor with CTNNb1...
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer occurring in children in the United States, and the predominant type of ALL begins in B cells (B-ALL). Standard chemotherapy cures more...
On July 19, 2022, AdventHealth Digestive Health Institute colorectal surgeon Mark Soliman, MD, completed the first complex colorectal surgical case in the Southeast U.S. using the da Vinci SP®...
On October 3, 2022, an AdventHealth Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute (HLVI) team under the leadership of cardiothoracic surgeon Ahmad Zeeshan, MD,...
The Obesity Society awarded Steven R. Smith, M.D., chief scientific officer and senior vice president of AdventHealth, the TOPS Research Achievement Award for his research on obesity, diabetes and the...
In June, AdventHealth for Children pediatric interventional cardiologists were the first in Florida to implant a tetralogy of Fallout patient with the Alterra Adaptive Prestent and Valve Implant...
Physicians are taught to solve problems, but what happens when a solution is not readily available? Chetan Patel, M.D., executive medical director of spine surgery at AdventHealth Neuroscience...
AdventHealth’s Celebration, Daytona Beach and Orlando campuses recently earned three-star ratings from the Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS)...
In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted...
AdventHealth Mission Control is proving to be a critical component in the emergency department by increasing success rates in several key areas, including connection, operational efficiency and...
With the exception of some types of skin cancer, colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer diagnosed...
An AdventHealth physician and team researched and developed a new brain-eating amoeba test that can produce results within three hours. Previously, testing routinely took up to six days, while the...
Thanks to a recent addition at AdventHealth University called the Anatomage Table, instructors now have a powerful new tool in their arsenal to teach students. Mohtashem Samsam, M.D. explains how...