Top hepatologists and hepatitis C researchers gathered at Weill Cornell Medical College on Friday, Nov. 13, for the conference "Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus in Patients on Opiate Agonist Treatment." The conference attracted prominent physicians and scientists from the fields...
Made Possible Through Gifts Totaling $65 Million From The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust NEW YORK (Dec. 2, 2009) — The Center for Digestive Care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has been established with a mission...
Weill Cornell Researchers Develop Simple Self-Assessment Questionnaire NEW YORK (Dec. 1, 2009) — Nearly a third of those with diabetes don't know they are ill. Now, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a new screening tool aimed at...
A Key Clinical Component of the Center Opens Today: The Outlook at Westchester Is the Only Specialized Psychiatric Inpatient Eating Disorders Program in NY State WHITE PLAINS & NEW YORK, NY (Dec. 1, 2009) — NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical...
Consensus Statement Recognizes the Legitimacy of Surgery as a Dedicated Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes in Carefully Selected Patients NEW YORK (Nov. 23, 2009) — A first-of-its-kind consensus statement on diabetes surgery is published online today in the Annals of...
Upcoming Clinical Trial Will Test Compound in Patients NEW YORK (Nov. 22 2009) — Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a...
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Study Opens Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver High-Dose Chemotherapy to Malignant Brain Tumors May Avoid Common Side Effects of Systemic Chemotherapy NEW YORK (Nov. 17, 2009) — Neurosurgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first intra-arterial...
Weill Cornell Medical College is partnering with Cornell University and the University of Buffalo to create the Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis. Funded by a $13 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the Center is one of...
ITHACA & NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 16, 2009) — Adding potent research firepower and fresh physical perspectives to combat cancer, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has funded the new Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, which will be headquartered at...
On Oct. 1, the Department of Neurosurgery held a party in the Griffis Faculty Club to celebrate The Spine Center. The party was attended by The Spine Center staff, friends, fellows and colleagues. Dr. Philip Stieg, chairman of the...
Faster, More Accurate Lab Testing With Results That Glow in the Dark Scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College are studying a way that may some day speed up lab testing by instantaneously measuring proteins within biological samples. Dr. Samie...
Alumni Honors Dr. Nabel Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, a 1981 alumnus of the Medical College, has been named president of the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals. Dr. Nabel is also director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)...
Laparoscopic Methods Compare Favorably With Open Surgery in Seven-Year NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Study of Patients With Notoriously Challenging Cancers of the Rectum NEW YORK (Nov. 10, 2009) — Laparoscopic surgery has been used in the treatment of intestinal disorders for close...
Weill Cornell Medical College Team Receives $2.5 Million New York State Research Grant to Undertake Laboratory Study NEW YORK (November 5, 2009) — Substances naturally produced by the human body may one day help prevent paralysis following a spinal cord...
"In my final cost-benefit analysis," said Carlo Canepa, a second-year student at Weill Cornell Medical College, "the pros of my experience were that I had a ton of responsibility, I was really busy, and I felt really useful, which...
On Sept. 16, 2001, five days after 9/11, Dr. D.A. Henderson, distinguished scholar at the Center for Biosecurity at U.P.M.C. and a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Pittsburgh, was summoned to Washington, D.C., to...
As far as medical mysteries go, the case of "Dr. Anonymous" is legendary. It has evoked intrigue for two centuries and includes some the biggest names in the history of medicine. And this mystery's final unraveling, by Dr. Paul...
Weill Cornell Medical College students participated in a town-hall-style discussion of the future of health care for The Glenn Beck Program on Fox News. The show, which aired on Friday, Oct. 16, covered topics including health care reform, Medicare,...
Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros S. Niarchos Associate Professor in Pediatric Cardiology, associate professor of pediatrics, and associate professor of cell and developmental biology, has been selected by the Champalimaud Foundation to lead the Champalimaud Metastasis Programme at Weill...
Doha, Qatar (Oct. 26, 2009) — The biomedical research program of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar has made significant progress in its dual goals of advancing basic science and building a sustainable research community in Qatar since it was...
