Recent advances in surgical procedures allow more patients to live with kidney cancer, continuing to maintain their normal schedules and lifestyles. Dr. Benjamin Lee, director of robotics, laparoscopy and endourology for Tulane Medical Center, seeks to preserve kidney function through minimally invasive surgery. Full Story...

Calling New Orleans “the canary in the global warming coal mine,” two Tulane professors say the Crescent City must embrace unconventional thinking in order to recover in a sustainable way from Hurricane Katrina while withstanding a continual threat from rising sea levels, diminishing wetlands and future storms. They stress that the No. 1 priority for Louisiana should be to combat global warming and accelerated sea-level rise. Full Story...

Researchers in the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine are working on a new way to sanitize sewage effluent from New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish so that the nutrient-rich water can help replenish and regrow depleted cypress swamps along the coast. The fertilizer, which is currently discharged into the Mississippi River, can boost wetland growth by more than 50 percent.

A similar diversion project in Hammond, La., showed 10 years worth of growth in cypress trees in the first season. Full Story...

Tulane University biomedical engineering students are gaining real-world experience by creating mechanisms that make living with disabilities easier. Twelve student teams spent Saturday (Feb. 16) showing their inventions to clients and visitors during the 2008 design show hosted by the Tulane School of Science and Engineering. Full Story...

In the past, children born with chest wall malformations endured sometimes debilitating operations, but recent medical advances allow surgeons to offer less invasive approaches. Tulane’s Chest Wall Center offers expertise in these leading-edge approaches to chest wall correction. Full Story...