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Before Dr. Nancy Andrews and her family moved to North Carolina, where she would become dean and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Duke University School of Medicine, she and her husband visited a number of prospective schools for...

Sesame Street's Grover helped announce the New York launch of emergency preparedness kits for children at NYP/Weill Cornell. Also on hand were (from left) Joseph F. Bruno, commissioner of NYC Office of Emergency Management; Gary E. Knell, president and...

NEW YORK (Oct. 30, 2008) — Weill Cornell Medical College announced today that it has received two $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grants will support innovative global health research projects: "Untimely Triggering...

He Will Lead Computer-Modeling Efforts to Prepare for Public Health Emergencies NEW YORK (Oct. 29, 2008) — A leading authority in using computer models to predict and plan for public health emergencies, Dr. Nathaniel Hupert has been named director of...

Dr. Peter Pressman, clinical professor of surgery and director of the Genetic Risk Assessment Program for Breast Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and Dr. Yashar Hirshaut, medical oncologist and clinical associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell,...

John A. Kastor, M.D. John A. Kastor, M.D., will present the first Heberden Society Lecture of the 2008–2009 academic year on Monday, Nov. 3, at 5 p.m. in Uris Faculty Room (A-126) at 1300 York Ave. The title of...

While the ultimate goal of miniaturizing Dennis Quaid and injecting him into patients to zap away all that ails them remains maddeningly beyond our grasp, the use of nano- and micro-fabrication tools and techniques for both clinical and basic...

Dr. Peter Wilson presented an oral history of the Payne Whitney Clinic, Sept. 10. Even at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where the world's finest physicians practice, Dr. Peter Wilson stands out. A professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College...

The Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine was officially unveiled at a ceremony at the Weill Greenberg Center, Sept. 26. From left: Dr. Herbert Pardes, Caleigh Perelman, Ronald O. Perelman, Samantha Perelman, Dr. Antonio M....

Ten Tips on Improving Life for Indoor Allergy Sufferers NEW YORK (October 2008) – Spring and summer are not the only seasons that bring misery to those with allergies. "The end of the pollinating season is good news for everyone...

NEW YORK (October 2008) — The flu season is fast approaching and this year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expanded immunization recommendations to include all children from 6 months to 18 years of age. "It is important...

NEW YORK (October 2008) — The activity and excitement of the holidays tend to make people less careful when they should be more cautious. Dr. Roger Yurt, director, and Robert Dembicki, R.N., M.S., patient care director of the Hearst Burn...

No time was wasted getting to the heart of the debate about the use of human embryos in stem cell research at the Sept. 17 public policy discussion that opened the Ansary Symposium on Stem Cell Research at Weill...

New Yorkers know all about emergencies. In a city this big, moving this fast, problems, big and small, can pop up pretty quickly. And you'd better have a plan. Weill Cornell Medical College certainly does. The Medical College's Emergency...

When the National Institutes of Health last year selected Weill Cornell Medical College to establish and lead the Clinical and Translational Science Center, the Medical College accepted a mission to facilitate collaborative research projects that would quickly yield new,...

Developed by NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Experts Used in Conjunction with Robotic Prostate Cancer Surgery NEW YORK (Oct. 02, 2008) — To ease the pain of recovery following prostate cancer surgery, physician-scientists have developed an innovative and patient-friendly approach that eliminates the...