Patient Care

The third annual NYC Health Hackathonbrought together nearly 200 students and faculty members from Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell’s Ithaca campus, and several local and national academic institutions, to develop high-tech healthcare innovations. 

Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) is every parent’s worst nightmare: a rare and incurable type of brain cancer that affects young children. Dr. Mark Souweidane decided to make curing this cancer his “Holy Grail”—and his progress since then has been impressive.

How a soap opera inspired this leading breast cancer surgeon and researcher.

Researchers at WCM–Qatar hope to help Qatar curb its looming diabetes crisis.

When a pulmonologist developed a lung condition while mountaineering on everest, it deepened his connection to patients.

Dr. Carlo Canepa spent an Everest climbing season practicing emergency medicine at one of the world’s highest clinics

The death rate of children whose mothers have died from breast or cervical cancer may be as high as 30 percent in some developing countries, according to a new paper published Nov. 1 in Cancer by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers. 

Pediatrician Dr. Jeffrey Perlman has spearheaded simple, low-cost efforts to save newborns in Tanzania—with dramatic results.

By now, many people are familiar with the grim statistic that opioid overdoses are killing more than 115 Americans...

Common drug treatments that lead to changes in gut fungi can persistently exacerbate allergic airway diseases such as asthma.

Gastroenterologist Dr. David Carr-Locke and colleagues describe a new bodily structure—and the media takes notice.

The trend toward intense exercise has triggered an increase in a potentially life-threatening condition

Telemedicine is a growing field at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center—and Weill Cornell Medicine is at the forefront of training future physicians in the art of the virtual exam.

Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Erin Mills Iannacone aims not only to bring more women to her field, but to broaden NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center’s surgical offerings.

By studying the powerful influences shaping how we die, Dr. Holly Prigerson is leading the effort of reimagine medical care at life’s end.

First-year students in Weill Cornell Medical College’s Class of 2022 learned basic bleeding-control techniques during a Stop the Bleed training on Aug. 20.

From optimizing technology to prioritizing self-care, a prescription for the modern MD

Three distinguished Weill Cornell Medicine physician-scientists, Dr. Daniel Fitzgerald, Dr. Francis Lee and Dr. Virginia Pascual, have been inducted into the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

By sabotaging one of the tuberculosis bacterium’s defenses against antibiotics, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators may have found a way to accelerate treatment for the disease and possibly overcome growing resistance to existing therapies.  

A new method for testing urinary tract infections yields more information than what conventional methods can offer, according to new research from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell’s Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering and NewYork-Presbyterian.