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Its name is an acronym used to convey its size, but researchers at Cornell Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine are hoping their hand-held cancer detection device’s impact in the developing world is anything but small.

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.

Dr. Lisa Newman, an internationally renowned breast surgeon and researcher, has been appointed chief of the Section of Breast Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine, effective Aug. 20. 

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Dr. Mary Charlson and investigators from the Clinical Directors Network have been awarded a $7.6 million, five-year contract from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study how health coaches may affect the health and wellness of patients with multiple chronic diseases.

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).

Levels of air pollution defined as “good” by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may still harm the lungs of cigarette smokers, according to a new study conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of August.

The Class of 2022 adds to Weill Cornell Medicine’s diverse community. Its students hail from 18 countries and collectively speak 29 different languages. 

U.S. News & World Report survey recognizes NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for its excellence in numerous specialties.

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.  

Sensory stimulation during a critical period soon after birth is essential for establishing networks in the brain...

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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.

NEW YORK (July 30, 2018)—Dr. Laura Riley, a renowned obstetrician who specializes in obstetric...

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of July.

Conventional wisdom suggests that a high level of the protein prostate specific antigen (PSA) in men with prostate cancer means a poor prognosis. However, this may not always be the case in men with a particular subtype of prostate cancer, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers.

A minimally invasive procedure to replace the heart’s aortic valve has recently increased in popularity despite a lack of research on the new valves’ long-term durability, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine.

Two years ago, in a remote region of Ecuador, ophthalmologist Dr. Elwin Schwartz, MD ’76, helped give a six-year-old girl the gift of sight.