Even after years in practice, Dr. Alex Proekt still finds it remarkable that anesthesiologists can induce a coma-like state, allowing patients to undergo surgery without feeling pain.
Dr. Erica Jones has created an ambitious new program dubbed "HeartHealth" at the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging that aims to curb heart disease long before symptoms appear.
If primary care physicians obtained additional training in a subspecialty area, they could treat patients who might ordinarily be referred to specialists, allowing experts to focus on the most complex cases.
New insight into how the intestines repair themselves after daily attacks from microbes in the environment could lead to innovative approaches to treating inflammatory bowel disease.
One in five lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender healthcare trainees and professionals believe their academic medical center doesn't provide a supportive environment to facilitate a successful career.
A nonprofit established in memory of a Ugandan woman who died at age 29 from complications of type 1 diabetes strives to prevent others from sharing a similar fate.
Qar'zma Butler was 7-years-old when she was diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare disease that often damages the cornea. Luckily for her, Weill Cornell's Dr. Kimberly Sippel is pioneering a new treatment that is saving children's sight.
A non-invasive test that scours urine for the by-products of metabolism as well as three genetic molecules can more accurately detect whether transplanted kidneys are being rejected by patients' bodies than a scan that examines either measure alone.
With a $1.92 million grant, the Leon Levy Foundation is renewing its fellowship in neuroscience through 2019, ensuring that more early-career physicians and scientists can pursue their innovative research.
Treating terminally ill cancer patients with chemotherapy in the months or weeks before their deaths was not found to improve patients' quality of life and may actually do more harm than good.
Dr. Karla Ballman has been named chief of the Division of Biostatics and Epidemiology in the Department of Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Patients who develop an infection of the heart valves have an elevated risk of stroke beginning four months before and up to five months after diagnosis -- a period significantly longer than previously reported.
