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New research by Weill Cornell Medical College could improve the lives of patients with traumatic brain injuries by clarifying how to accurately measure their level of awareness.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered why a tiny alteration in a brain gene, found in 20 percent of the population, contributes to the risk for anxiety, depression and memory loss.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center has received a transformative gift from The Mortimer D. Sackler Foundation to create the Sackler Brain and Spine Institute in support of neurological and neurosurgical patient care and innovative medical research and education. The gift was announced at an inauguration celebration yesterday.

While the number of homebirths in the United States has grown over the last decade, researchers at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center have found that babies born at home are roughly 10 times as likely to be stillborn and almost four times as likely to have neonatal seizures or serious neurologic dysfunction when compared to babies born in hospitals

For Weill Cornell Medical College scientist Dr. Ari Melnick, advanced technology and cutting-edge science are unlocking the mysteries of the human genome, unleashing the potential of what was once unimaginable: finding cures for human cancers.

One of the world's leading immunologists, Dr. Gary Koretzky, has been named dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and senior associate dean for research at Weill Cornell Medical College, effective Oct. 1.

Weill Cornell Medical College announced today that it has received a $100 million gift from longtime benefactors Joan and Sanford I. Weill and the Weill Family Foundation to launch the Medical College's $300 million Driving Discoveries, Changing Lives campaign dedicated to using the most advanced scientific approaches to rapidly translate research breakthroughs into innovative treatments and therapies for patients.

Dr. Samie Jaffrey, professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell, has won the 2014 ASBMB Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Aug. 30 - Sept. 6.

Weill Cornell's 17th annual White Coat Ceremony on Tuesday marked a new chapter for each of the 103 students who comprise this year's incoming class. It served as a celebration of years of diligence, aspiration and preparation that led them down the steps of Uris Auditorium, where Weill Cornell faculty helped students don their short white coats as proud family and friends looked on.

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

Less than two years after transforming the medical student learning model from printed course notes and texts to iPads as part of curriculum reform, Weill Cornell has expanded its digital initiative to gross anatomy by purchasing 27 iPads -- one for each of the 26 dissection tables stationed in the lab and one for the faculty member running the day's session.

Requirements of the health reform law are pressuring small physician practices to use information technology and new ways of delivering care to improve patients' wellbeing. Yet only a quarter of small- and medium-sized physician groups partner with organizations that share technology and care-management programs that make these otherwise unaffordable resources available to them, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medical College scientists.

Pregnant women who don't make enough thyroid hormone are nearly four times likelier to have autistic children than healthy women, report scientists from the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College and Erasmus Medical Centre in the journal Annals of Neurology.

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

Patients with an aggressive lymphoma that often relapses and kills within two years experienced a remission of their cancer and stayed disease-free as long as 28 months after taking a commercially-available drug that made chemotherapy more effective.

A roundup of new research from Weill Cornell's physicians and scientists. In this installment, a new mouse model from Dr. Lorraine Gudas and Dr. David Nanus inspires new insights on human clear cell renal cancer.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Aug. 9 - Aug. 16.

Initiatives to improve health care increasingly link physician payment to quality of care. But studies so far have shown mixed findings about whether or not these "pay-for-performance" programs actually improve care.

Patients like it and so do health organizations, but electronic communications in clinical care will likely not be widely adopted by primary care physicians unless physician workloads are reduced or they are paid for the time they spend phoning and emailing patients, both during and after office hours.