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For one month last fall, Weill Cornell Medical College student Nii Koney experienced first-hand what it's like to be a gynecologic oncologist. All thanks to a new award from the Hearing the Ovarian Cancer Whisper non-profit organization, based in Palm Beach County, Fl.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a computer program that has tracked the manner in which different forms of dementia spread within a human brain. They say their mathematic model can be used to predict where and approximately when an individual patient's brain will suffer from the spread, neuron to neuron, of "prion-like" toxic proteins -- a process they say underlies all forms of dementia.

Nationwide ambulance use by patients suffering from a stroke has not changed since the mid-1990s, even though effective stroke treatments are now available. In a study published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center found that the number of stroke victims transported via ambulance has remained relatively static over the years, highlighting the need for more education about stroke symptoms and the importance of early intervention.

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered that the single protein -- alpha 2 delta -- exerts a spigot-like function, controlling the volume of neurotransmitters and other chemicals that flow between the synapses of brain neurons. The study, published online in Nature, shows how brain cells talk to each other through these signals, relaying thoughts, feelings and action, and this powerful molecule plays a crucial role in regulating effective communication.

The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has selected Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medical College to participate in a new national effort to accelerate the development of therapies for people with neurological diseases. NeuroNEXT (for Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials) links 25 sites through a common research infrastructure, streamlining the process to conduct clinical trials of promising therapies.

Dr. Crystal approached the issue of genomic testing by sharing the results of one specific experience -- his own.

Since 2006, the Global Emergency Medicine Program in the Division of Emergency Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has been committed to the advancement of the science and practice of emergency medicine, disaster preparedness and public health the world over.

Katherine Hajjar, M.D., is a tenacious sleuth when it comes to understanding a bodily function that many of us prefer to ignore -- the flow of our blood. Specifically, blood vessels and how they grow.

By engineering cells to express a modified RNA called "Spinach," researchers have imaged small-molecule metabolites in living cells and observed how their levels change over time. Metabolites are the products of individual cell metabolism. The ability to measure their rate of production could be used to recognize a cell gone metabolically awry, as in cancer, or identify the drug that can restore the cell's metabolites to normal.

Dr. Lia Logio has been elected to a three-year term on the Council of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM).

From the sliver of land that separates Manhattan and Queens in the middle of the East River is a clear view of Weill Cornell Medical College. It's a vista students and faculty at the new CornellNYC Tech campus will gaze upon from their quarters on Roosevelt Island.

Katie Couric, NewYork-Presbyterian and its Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health, the Entertainment Industry Foundation's National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA), and ABC today announced the "Make That Call" campaign to promote colon cancer screening for National Colon Cancer Awareness Month. During the month of March, the campaign will urge New Yorkers age 50 and older, as well as those at increased risk for the disease, to call their doctors to make an appointment to be screened for colon cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. According to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, colonoscopy is the preferred colon cancer screening test in New York City.

The number two cancer killer in the U.S. is often preventable and highly curable.

 Dr. James Bruce Bussel has received the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Medicine 2012 in honor of his research on a disorder that affects fetuses and newborns, the King Faisal Foundation has announced. Dr. James Bussel Dr. Bussel, professor...

Oncologists have known that in order for cancer cells to spread, they must transform themselves so they can detach from a tumor and spread to a distant organ. Now, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have revealed critical steps in what happens next — how these cells reverse the process, morphing back into classical cancer that can now grow into a new tumor.

Some 10 million Americans have degenerative retinal disease; of those, 1.9 million suffer from advanced-stage blindness. Historically, there has been little that doctors can do. Medications help only a small subset of patients -- and then just slightly improve vision or slow the disease's progress. So far, prosthetic retinas have had limited appeal: They reveal high-contrast edges and spots of light, allowing people to orient themselves within spaces they already know but hardly approximating normal vision. But now an experimental, next-generation artificial retina developed by Sheila Nirenberg, PhD -- associate professor of computational neuroscience in the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine and in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics -- is currently in the animal testing phase and showing great promise, producing images so sharp and subtle that they closely resemble what a fully sighted person would see.

 When leaders of the student-run Weill Cornell Community Clinic began organizing their January fundraiser, they expected to raise $5,000 to support patient care. The Weill Cornell Community Clinic hosted an art benefit Jan. 27 at The Astor Center in NoHo,...