Byles House is the oldest building existing in Union Hospital. In August 2022, after almost one year of renovation, this time-honored building had been reborn as the new Union Hospital History Museum, exhibiting the 156-year development history of the hospital with photos and materials.Byles House Hilda Magerat Byles    In 1931, Hilda Byles, doctor of Union Hospital and one of the earliest ...

The Head and Neck Cancer MDT (multidisciplinary team) of Union Hospital has made new progress in the clinical research of neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with PD-1 inhibitor in patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus camrelizumab showed higher objective response rate (ORR) of tumor, reduced damage of important organs in p...

"Hi, boys and girls, what do you want to be when you grow up?""I want to be an animal guide or a doctor.""I wanna be a gourmet or a painter…"A special class entitled "Dream and Future" was held at 10:00 am, May 31th, in the "Sunshine Study Room" at Wuhan Union Hospital Cancer Center (UHCC). All of ten children in the class suffered from bone and soft tissue tumors, aged between 5 and 16. "Oste...

Ureteral stricture disease is a general term for ureteral lumen stenosis or atresia, which caused by congenital dysplasia, iatrogenic injury, impacted residual ureteral stones, tumor radiotherapy or other reasons. It leads to varying degrees of hydronephrosis or impaired renal function on the affected side. The management of long, complex proximal ureteral strictures is challenging in clinical ...

An ultra-small, maglev centrifugal artificial heart was transplanted into a 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease by a team of multi-disciplinary experts led by Prof. Dong Nianguo from Cardiovascular Surgery Dept., in Wuhan Union Hospital, marking the 12th case of artificial heart implantation conducted by our hospital.The maglev artificial heart, or Corheart 6 left ventricular assist...

Intervertebral disc degeneration is the pathological basis of various degenerative spinal diseases, bringing huge burden and chronic pain to a large number of patients. However, the effective treatment strategies are still missing. Recently, research team of Professor Cao Yang at Department of Orthopaedics, Union Hospital discovered the new mechanism of intervertebral disc degeneration and deve...

On March 7, the association standard "Requirements of Pathological Datasets for Assisted Diagnosis of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)" (Standard Number: T/CSBME 051-2022) was officially published on the National Association Standard Information Platform. This association standard specifies the requirements of pathological dataset design, sample collection and processing, data collection, dat...