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Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of May 30 - June 6.

Hopes that a vitamin-like substance found in cells might help slow decline in motor function in patients with early Parkinson's disease have been dashed in a phase III clinical trial.

Through the generosity of longstanding benefactor Jill Roberts and the Jill Roberts Charitable Foundation, Weill Cornell Medical College is establishing the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dr. David Artis, one of the world's leading immunologists, was recruited from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine to direct the institute.

Dr. Jennifer Downs has been awarded a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations grant to study the role of clergy in promoting male circumcision.

Primary care doctors practicing in a model of coordinated, team-based care that leverages health information technology are more likely to give patients recommended preventive screening and appropriate tests than physicians working in other settings, according to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Evidence is mounting that oral vaccines against cholera can stem the spread of the disease, even when they are given at the start of an epidemic.

The bond between young adult cancer patients and their physicians appears to be a critically important factor in preventing thoughts of suicide, new research suggests.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of May 23 - May 30.

Nearly 300 students celebrated a milestone on May 29: graduating from Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College, addressed the Class of 2014 during commencement on May 29 at Carnegie Hall.

On the eve of their graduation, students from Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences were recognized for their outstanding achievements.

Allyson Tlacoxolal, 33, suffered regularly from debilitating migraines and fleeting blindness. After participating in a clinical trial run by Dr. Athos Patsalides and Dr. Marc Dinkin to treat her pseudotumor cerebri condition, her symptoms are in remission.

Weill Cornell launches a special graduation page to celebrate this year's commencement activities.

Dr. Sandeep Kishore, a graduating M.D.-Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell Medical College, was selected by his peers to be this year's student commencement speaker.

Doctoral student Victoria Schulman is the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Science's 2014 commencement speaker.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of May 16 - May 23.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center has appointed two new division directors at its Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children's Health.

DNA fragments packaged in tumor exosomes -- small tumor-secreted vesicles -- can be used to identify important genetic mutations in cancer, researchers at Weill Cornell have demonstrated.

"Sibling" to tumor suppressor raises questions about role of PTEN family of proteins in cancer and other diseases, according to new Weill Cornell research.

Hospitals will maintain their prominent role in American medicine and remain economically viable, despite health care reform that requires them to make changes.