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NEJM Review Into Brain Circuit Mechanisms May Lead to More Accurate Coma Diagnosis and Improved Therapies NEW YORK (Dec. 30, 2010) — The brain under general anesthesia isn't "asleep" as surgery patients are often told — it is placed into...

$100,000 Grant Given to Researchers at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College NEW YORK (Dec. 21, 2010) — Researchers from Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College have been awarded $100,000 by NFL Charities, the charitable foundation of the...

Appointment to Professor Rebecca Baergen, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Boris C. Bastian, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Bastian is on staff at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dietrich Büsselberg, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology...

Goal Is to Strengthen Hospitals' Ability to Protect Communities During Public Health Disasters DHHS-Funded Initiative Led by Weill Cornell Medical College's Dr. Nathaniel Hupert Through Cornell University's Institute for Disease and Disaster Preparedness NEW YORK (Dec. 16, 2010) — With...

Dr. Henri R. Ford The NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center Alumni Council (CAC) held its annual awards dinner on Nov. 18 to honor distinguished housestaff and new members of the Medical Center Circle, and to present the 2010 Distinguished...

Trial Is Currently Enrolling Patients Who Have Failed Previous Therapies NEW YORK (Dec. 13, 2010) — Multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer in which malignant plasma cells are overproduced in the bone marrow, has led to an estimated 20,000...

Appointment of Dr. Daniel Cherqui Marks Expansion of Liver Transplant Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital NEW YORK (Dec. 9, 2010) — Dr. Daniel Cherqui, one of the world's leading liver surgeons, has joined NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center as chief of...

Dr. Michael G. Stewart and Dr. Samuel H. Selesnick have co-edited a new otolaryngology textbook that has the potential to become a standard resource for clinicians, fellows and medical students. The text, "Differential Diagnosis in Otolaryngology — Head and...

Dr. Charles E. Inturrisi Dr. Charles E. Inturrisi, professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College, has been appointed to the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Advancing Pain Research, Care and Education. Over the next six months, the committee...

AAMC President and CEO Dr. Darrell G. Kirch Dr. Darrell G. Kirch, president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, discussed the future of the health care industry and how reform will influence medical education...

Discovery Suggests a New Avenue of Corrective Therapy for Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and Other Cancers NEW YORK (Dec. 2, 2010) — There is new hope for people with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone...

When discussing why women advance slower than their male counterparts in medicine and academics, two seemingly rational explanations tend to dominate. It's a pipeline issue: A dearth of women in the lower tiers of the profession clearly limit the...

Physician-Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College Offer Lung Cancer Therapy to Patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital as Part of an Ongoing Clinical Research Trial NEW YORK (Nov. 30, 2010) — An experimental immunotherapy may someday become...

Two New Studies Illustrate How Hepcidin Affects Beta-Thalassemia and Hemochromatosis Diseases NEW YORK (Nov. 23, 2010) — A hormone made by the body may be a potential therapeutic tool for the treatment of two blood disorders — beta-thalassemia and hemochromatosis....

On the afternoon of Jan. 12, 2010, Dr. Patrice Severe, a physician at the GHESKIO clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, found himself dodging falling rubble as he crawled onto a nearby soccer field. The GHESKIO clinic where Dr. Severe worked was just 16 miles from the epicenter of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that shook Haiti that afternoon, and the soccer field on which Dr. Severe found himself would quickly become a refugee camp for roughly 7,000 Haitians who lost their homes in the quake.

In those first few moments, just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, when the devastating earthquake struck about 10 miles outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dr. Patrice Severe found himself working off his most basic instincts. "My first thought was...

Imagine that you've been asked to run a primary care clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the poorest area in the western hemisphere with the highest rate of HIV/AIDS. The Haitian Ministry of Health wants you to provide AIDS care for...

Brooklyn bus driver Pete Pizzuti was the first patient to receive a liver transplant through NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell's newly established Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation. The life-saving procedure was led by Dr. Daniel Cherqui, who was recently appointed professor...

Weill Cornell Medical College Studies Lay Groundwork for New Treatments for Regenerating Liver and Bone Marrow NEW YORK (Nov. 11, 2010) — The liver's unique ability among organs to regenerate itself has been little understood. Now Weill Cornell Medical College...

The New York Times, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, selected Drs. John Boockvar and Howard Riina's experimental work with malignant brain tumors for its watch list of noteworthy advances in 2011.