Newly discovered link between COPD-associated genes and lung function may explain disease's development and disparate respiratory effects of cigarettes on users.
Weill Cornell Medical College opens the Belfer Research Building, a state-of-the-art facility that ushers in a new era at the institution for cutting-edge, translational science.
Weill Cornell investigators have identified an important new pathway responsible for the development of cancer and its spread, which could help prevent metastasis.
With the help of the National Football League, Weill Cornell investigators are using nuclear medicine and advanced MRI techniques to better diagnose concussions.
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar have discovered how a diabetes drug that has been widely prescribed for more than 50 years protects patients' circulatory systems from damage caused by high blood sugar.
In a novel approach to stroke research, investigators from NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center will collaborate to create the New York Stroke Trials Network of Columbia and Cornell. The network is one of 25 regional stroke centers across the country funded by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Trials Network (NIH StrokeNet), announced by the National Institutes of Health in December 2013.
Weill Cornell Medical College announced today that it has received a $75 million gift from Sandra and Edward Meyer and the Sandra and Edward Meyer Foundation to expand and enhance the medical college's distinguished cancer research and care programs.
Analysis of the DNA of Qatar's native population has discovered genetic variations that could help reduce the prevalence of a variety of debilitating hereditary disorders.
Dr. Matthew Fink, chairman of the Department of Neurology and the Louis and Gertrude Feil Professor of Clinical Neurology at Weill Cornell, has been appointed assistant dean of clinical affairs -- a new position at the medical college.
Dr. Joseph Fins elected distinguished member of the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain, and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the weeks of Dec. 20 - Jan. 3.
A Weill Cornell pediatric urologist provides a comprehensive review of congenital adrenal hyperplasia and discusses the most recent treatment strategies.
Federal incentive programs designed to improve quality of care may worsen disparities for patients at facilities that serve many socioeconomically disadvantaged people.
Most participants in a study that combined a medication with virtual reality exposure therapy to treat PTSD went into remission and stayed that way through the six months of the study.
The students' idea was bold and ambitious: create a journal that would showcase the humanities in a Weill Cornell Medical College community focused more on medicine than media. Two years later, student editors and faculty advisors of Ascensus say the journal has created a dialogue through which students, residents and attending physicians can reflect on their experiences in medicine by creating works of art.
