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Contrary to some predictions, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents could lead to more, not fewer, health care professionals working in the United States, according to a new article by a physician and health policy researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine who surveyed economic theory and the history of technology in health care.

Obesity caused by disrupted stress-hormone rhythms is metabolically very different from obesity caused by a high-fat diet, according to a new preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Dr. Zachary Grinspan, associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a four-year, $1.6 million CDC grant to undertake wide-reaching research aiming to produce a new, more detailed picture of childhood epilepsy.

A commonly used systemic antifungal medication may help reduce symptoms in a subset of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by restoring a healthier gut microbiome, according to a preliminary study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. 

A team of Weill Cornell Medicine investigators has developed a computer model that will help scientists more efficiently develop protein-destroying therapies, a newer type of treatment that is particularly promising for cancer.

Awards, honors and achievements for the month of August.

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have discovered specific mechanisms that enable the bacteria not only to survive drying but also to generate mutations linked to antibiotic resistance. 

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have developed a set of molecular tools to regulate the activity of specific genes in one of the most common classes of intestinal bacteria. 

The new department will be a catalyst for collaborative research at Weill Cornell Medicine, integrating advanced genomics and patient-focused technologies that generate large and complex datasets with computational approaches—including artificial intelligence—that allow researchers to gain unprecedented insights into the drivers of disease. 

In a Viewpoint for JAMA Psychiatry, Dr. Yunyu Xiao and colleagues make the case for Generalizable, Replicable Approaches for Suicide Behavior Prediction (GRASP): shared, publicly available infrastructure to validate, select, and sustain suicide risk models across health systems. 

Prostate tumors can rewire amino acid metabolism to override the normal brakes on cholesterol production, a process that may fuel hormone therapy resistance, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

On Aug. 18, 106 first-year medical students in the Class of 2030 earned their white coats during the annual White Coat Ceremony, officially marking the beginning of their medical education. 

Fifty physician assistant students donned their white coats Aug. 18 during the annual White Coat Ceremony—the first time PA students attained this milestone on the same day as medical students. 

A conceptual framework like the one engineers use for characterizing the transmission of sound and electrical signals can be useful in studying how olfaction—the sense of smell—is influenced by the air flow that carries odor molecules, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Colorado—Boulder.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Pakistan is associated with a high risk of death and disability long after the initial injury, even in mild to moderate cases, according to two new studies in JAMA Network Open led by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

Dr. Kadenhe-Chiweshe will lead pediatric surgical services at NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital of Children’s Hospital of New York and Children’s Hospital of New York locations in Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan and Queens.

Brain-resident immune cells that have reached an old-age state called senescence secrete a protein that causes dysfunction in other brain cells, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. 

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have uncovered how a key Parkinson's protein called LRRK2 shifts between inactive and active forms, revealing the structural changes that enable certain mutations to push the protein into an overactive state. 

Artificial intelligence may enhance implementation of a new federal rule requiring aduts enrolled under the Affordable Care Act expansion of Medicaid eligibility to complete qualifying work hours or community engagement activities or meet exemption criteria to maintain coverage, according to a new commentary.

Earlier use of a targeted radionuclide therapy delays metastatic prostate cancer progression when administered as part of a trio of drugs, according to a phase 3 clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and investigators at several other institutions worldwide.