News

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,...

 Findings Suggest Simple Methods to Detect Consciousness May Bypass Patients Who Can Communicate, But Not in Recognizable Ways NEW YORK (Feb. 13, 2012) — By employing complex machine learning techniques to decipher repeated advanced brain scans, researchers at New York-Presbyterian/Weill...

A few years ago, Dr. Kou Qin, now a postdoc at Weill Cornell, but then a Ph.D. candidate in pharmacology at the Medical College of Georgia, started reading bestselling author Jonathan Franzen's novel "Freedom," but put it down halfway...

Dr. Anne Moscona and her colleague at Weill Cornell, Matteo Porotto, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Microbiology in Pediatrics, are identifying ways to block viruses from getting into lung cells, which is "opening up a new range of possibilities for how we can prevent and cure these infections in children."

Dr. Barbara L. Hempstead Appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Development to Help Foster Professional Development NEW YORK (Jan. 26, 2012) — Weill Cornell Medical College has announced the establishment of the Office of Faculty Development dedicated to assisting its physicians,...

Approach Shown Successful for Patients With Coronary Artery Disease, High Blood Pressure and Asthma Research by NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Published in Jan. 23 Archives of Internal Medicine NEW YORK (Jan. 23, 2012) — The experience of daily positive affect — a...

Researchers Say Their Study Is the First to Show How HIV Ramps Up This Cancer-Causing Pathway — and the First to Offer a Potential Solution NEW YORK (Jan. 18, 2012) — Research conducted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center global...

Public Service Campaign to Raise Awareness for Colon Cancer Screening The Sweepstakes Grand Prize Winner Will be Flown to New York City for a Three-Night Hotel Stay on Central Park and a Free Colonoscopy at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital To view the...

Dr. Andrew I. Schafer Dr. Andrew I. Schafer will receive the Robert H. Williams, M.D., Distinguished Professor Award, the highest honor of the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM), during the association's winter meeting in late February. 

Dean Laurie Glimcher envisions Weill Cornell Medical College as a global leader in clinical care, biomedical research and medical education within the next decade, a goal she laid out in her inaugural address Jan. 5.

Founding Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, He Made Numerous Contributions to Advance the Specialty NEW YORK (Dec. 29, 2011) — Dr. Joseph F. Artusio Jr., the founding chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology...

At Weill Cornell, Dr. Carl Nathan and his associates are screening hundreds of thousands of compounds for new drugs to treat tuberculosis. His lab is screening drugs long-approved for a variety of treatments that might also be used as weapons against bacteria.

The NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center Alumni Council (CAC) honored 30 physicians and health care professionals last month for exemplary service to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr., the outgoing Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean...

In a "defining moment" for New York City, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced Monday that Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology won a competitive bid to establish an applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island. Cornell and Technion...