Patient Care

Teams of health care providers called Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program have saved Medicare between $4.1 billion and $8.1 billion from 2012 through 2019, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. 

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators are developing a new test for TB that circumvents many of the current diagnostic challenges.

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers and Tanzanian colleagues are leveraging clergy's influence to lower life-threatening hypertension rates in Tanzania, and potentially the U.S.

A Phase I clinical trial demonstrated that a targeted approach to treating a deadly brain tumor in children called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is safe, reported Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators.

At Weill Cornell Medical College, students have a new tool for polishing their bedside manner and making a diagnosis: an artificial intelligence-powered virtual patient that simulates the doctor-patient interaction.

Students from Cornell’s Master of Public Health program and faculty from Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics recently joined forces at the United Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life Advocate to Vaccinate Summit to champion global vaccine access.

A generous grant from The Hearst Foundations will fund a new Program for the Study and Support of Caregivers at Weill Cornell Medicine, developing new strategies to help people cope with the challenges of caring for friends or family members at home.

Weill Cornell Medicine and Weill Bugando School of Medicine collaborate to strengthen medical education.

The Weill Cornell Medicine Program for Substance Use and Stigma of Addiction has proudly distributed naloxone rescue kits (Narcan) to the New York City community for 10 years.

On Jan. 17, incoming students earned their short white coats as the newest class in Weill Cornell Medicine’s Master of Science in Health Sciences for Physician Assistants Program.

The Translational Research Institute for Pain in Later Life, a New York City-based center to help older adults prevent and manage pain, has been awarded a five-year, $5 million renewal grant from the National Institute on Aging.

Non-white communities had significantly less access to opioid medications commonly prescribed for moderate to severe pain than white communities over the decade beginning in 2011, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

People with diabetes who were taking GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs such as tirzepatide and semaglutide had significantly lower rates of hospital readmission, wound re-opening and hematoma after surgery.

The five-year, $2.3 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will seek to improve equitable access to care, quality of life and survival outcomes for young people with all stages of breast cancer.

After years of research, Dr. Gary Gibson’s work has culminated in a nationwide clinical trial evaluating an entirely new treatment approach for slowing Alzheimer’s progression.

A multicenter randomized, controlled clinical trial aims to test whether a minimally invasive treatment can relieve chronic pelvic pain and improve the quality of life for women with pelvic venous disease.

A newer vaccine against hepatitis B virus was clearly superior to an older vaccine type in inducing a protective antibody response among people living with HIV who didn’t respond to prior vaccination, according to the results of an international study led by a Weill Cornell Medicine investigator.

Many individuals seeking asylum in the United States show increased stress and pain symptoms that are associated with indications of cardiovascular disease, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

Tirzepatide, a new injectable weight-loss drug with the trade name Zepbound, reduced the risk of diabetes in patients with obesity and prediabetes by more than 90% over a three-year period, compared with placebo, according to a new study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, Yale School of Medicine and other institutions.

A novel combination of surgery and embolization used to treat subdural hematomas, bleeding between the brain and its protective membrane due to trauma, reduces the risk of follow-up surgeries, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and University at Buffalo.