Cuts to the NIH budget threaten patient lives, scientific advances and the United States' reputation as a biomedical leader, Weill Cornell students write in The Hill.
Emergency department physicians are less likely to admit patients to the hospital when they have readily available electronic access to those patients' health records.
Five months since its launch, the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute is now seeking early-stage research projects for its drug discovery and development program designed to advance scientific breakthroughs into effective treatments for patients.
Terminal cancer patients who receive chemotherapy in the last months of their lives are less likely to die where they want and are more likely to undergo invasive medical procedures than those who do not receive chemotherapy, according to research in this week's BMJ.
A U.S. health care system that increasingly relies on collaborative teams of providers is in need of a uniform code of ethics for its disparate participants, including patients and the public, according to a new commentary co-authored by M.D.-Ph.D. student Dr. Sandeep Kishore.
A new study led by Weill Cornell Medical College scientists shows that the most common genetic form of mental retardation and autism occurs because of a mechanism that shuts off the gene associated with the disease.
A new program will offer investigators financial support to conduct research that will demonstrate to the biopharmaceutical industry that their scientific discoveries can be turned into effective treatments for patients.
By using glowing proteins, Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers have found the fuel needed to power communication between brain cells is generated as needed -- not continuously, as believed.
Mothers remain at risk of developing a serious blood clot for 12 weeks after giving birth, rather than six weeks as previously thought, say a team of researchers in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Weill Cornell Medical College has named its department of medicine the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine in honor of the couple's longstanding dedication to the medical college.
The new Belfer Research Building, through its novel architectural design and the art that hangs on its walls, is not only conducive to high-impact research, but is also warm, inviting and engaging.
Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson is named one of the nation's 15 most influential African-American educators and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Jan. 31 - Feb. 7.
Newly discovered link between COPD-associated genes and lung function may explain disease's development and disparate respiratory effects of cigarettes on users.
