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Steven R. Goldstein MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, receives the Ian Donald Gold Medal Award at the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG). This is the highest honor this society awards and is given annually to an individual "who has changed the way ultrasound is practiced through research or innovation." Over the 33 years since this society began only once before was this award given to someone lik...
The following is from Dr Steven R. Goldstein, an expert NYC gyn, to his current patients. Please note that the following information is not a substitute for in office diagnosis and treatment. It is meant for informational or educational purposes only. Most of you are aware that I usually only send email blasts when something has appeared in the news or print media that I think would be of important interest to you and worth sharing. Approximately two weeks ago, there was an article in the Sc...
2023 William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award The William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award was established by Joseph H. Holmes, MD, in 1969, and presented for the first time at the AIUM annual meeting in Winnipeg that year. William J. Fry, MS, was a physicist with a strong interest in ultrasound in biology and medicine, whose innovative research efforts advanced the field of diagnostic ultrasound. One of P...
Part 3 of our discussion on Fibroids. Fibroids can be a source of failed pregnancy (miscarriage). When such pregnancy failure occurs, thorough evaluation with transvaginal ultrasound and sometimes saline infusion sonohysterography is essential to be sure that the uterus is, in fact, normal and may not be the culprit for the failed pregnancy (most of the time failed pregnancies are due to abnormal chromosomes, and nature is smarter in not allowing such pregnancies to continue). More on failed pr...
Below is Part II of our series of articles on Uterine Fibroids. Another extremely important issue is that true fibroids have NO malignant potential. Years and years ago they thought that a very small number (less than 1%) could undergo malignant transformation. This does not occur. There are rare malignant tumors of uterine muscle known as sarcomas. These are almost always solitary rather than multiple and, when examined with color flow Doppler ultrasound technology looking at blood flow, will...
Dr Steven R. Goldstein, an abnormal uterine bleeding specialist in NYC comments on a NY Times article on uterine cancer. In last weekend’s NY Times, there was a front-page article entitled, “Uterine cancer rapidly rising, especially among Black women.” Although the rates in Black women have risen the most, the rates of uterine cancer in all women have gone up steadily to the point where it is soon expected to replace colon cancer as the third most common cancer in women and is rapidly a...
Last week, Jane Brody, in her column, wrote about screening for breast cancer and early detection with mammograms as well as the confusion about who should get mammograms and at what frequency. This week, as the second of a two-part series, her article is entitled, “How to Reduce Breast Cancer Threat.”Much of what she writes about is absolutely true and not necessarily new. The relationship of alcohol to breast cancer is well known, although, moderate consumption of wine seems to res...
There was an article in yesterday’s New York Times by Jane Brody entitled, “Older Women, Mammograms and Confusion.” I’ve always enjoyed reading Jane Brody as I usually find her to be extremely on point and accurate. However, I found this article to be exactly as the title implies – confusing. I agree with her that one cannot go by the recommendation of various Societies because they are conflicting. The United States Preventative Services Task Force, which, I believe, in many other d...
To my patients,As you know I usually email you with a response to something Gynecologic that has appeared in the news. This is somewhat different. The following was written by Dr Lisa Larkin, an internist in Cinncinnati who is a colleague and a very good friend. Recently (finally) she was elected to the Board of the North American Menopause Society (as most of you know I was President of that Society) and is a speaker on relevant internal medicine topics at the course I co-direct "Surviv...
As most of you are aware, I usually send these email blasts in response to medical articles that appear in the news, and most often, The New York Times. This is an example where, almost four months ago, I alerted my patients to a rising problem of antibiotic resistance, mainly with urinary tract infection because physicians were failing to do appropriate cultures prior to initiating broad spectrum antibiotic use. In the July 14th New York Times, a front-page article was entitled, “As ...