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Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and professor of medicine, professor of public health and professor of medicine in psychiatry, delivered a plenary address at the Seventh World Congress of Brain Injury of the International...

The treatment options of AIDS patients in the U.S. have steadily improved since the disease become a public health crisis that transcended race, gender and sexual orientation. The testing is better. The drugs are better. In short, the chances...

Narcissists are as easily recognizable as they are prevalent. We've all had to contend with their boorish and abrasive attitudes, their hypercompetitive nature and undisciplined response to the slightest, and often misinterpreted or completely imagined, stimulus. A familiar narcissist...

Physicians in each of the diverse specialties of medicine rely on communication between colleagues at national meetings to learn of the key basic science and clinical research advances that will lead to better practices. For academic otolaryngologists, one of...

Michael Bliss Michael Bliss, Emeritus University Professor at the University of Toronto, will present the final Heberden Society Lecture of the 2007–2008 academic year on Thursday, May 8, at 5 p.m. in Uris Faculty Room (A-126) at 1300 York...

For every answer medicine is able to provide, countless questions are sure to follow. And as tantalizing as the answers that predictive genetic testing could offer, the scores of questions this new technology raise cannot be ignored. Is the...

The sale of T-shirts bearing Weill Cornell Medical College's recently revised Hippocratic Oath has raised over $1,500 for the Dean's Scholarship Fund. Barnes & Noble had agreed that the proceeds from shirts sold within a specific period — from...

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Has Nation's Largest Transplantation Program, With More Than 200 Performed at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell in 2007 NEW YORK (April 14, 2008) — A leading pioneer of advanced techniques in transplantation surgery, Dr. Sandip Kapur has been appointed chief of...

International Authority on Advanced Laparoscopic Surgical Techniques, Dr. Pomp Is Named the Leon C. Hirsch Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College NEW YORK (April 14, 2008) — An international authority on advanced laparoscopic surgical techniques, Dr. Alfons Pomp...

Made Possible by Generous Gift From Phyllis and David Komansky Noted Craniofacial Surgeon Dr. Samuel Rhee Appointed Director NEW YORK (April 10, 2008) — A new craniofacial surgery program has opened at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Made possible by...

Discussion of When and How to Share Data, and When to Suspend a Study Authored by Dr. Jeffrey Borer of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell NEW YORK (April 9, 2008) — How and when to share clinical trial data for heart studies —...

Dr. Sibel Klimstra (center), recipient of the AAGP Educator of the Year Award, with Dr. Ike Ahmed (left), chair of AAGP's Teaching and Training Committee, and Dr. Gary S. Moak, AAGP president. Dr. Sibel Klimstra, associate professor of clinical...

Appointment to Professor Gary S. Dorfman, M.D., Professor of Radiology. Osama Gaber, M.B., B.Ch., Professor of Surgery (Transplantation). (Dr. Gaber is on staff at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX.) Richard A. Goldfarb, M.D., Clinical Professor of Urology. (Dr....

David Jensen, a career specialist in the science industry, offering advice to postdocs on how to succeed in academia. Department of Biochemistry chairman Dr. Frederick Maxfield discussing the importance of networking. For the past four years, postdocs and the...

Genetic Analysis of Colon Cancer Patients Reveals Higher Levels of Autozygosity — Identical Copies of DNA Inherited From Both Parents — Than Controls NEW YORK (March 25, 2008) — Like the subtext of a novel, the human genome sequence harbors...

Dr. Claudia Henschke (left), with (from left) Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP and chairman of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids; Dr. Cheryl Healton, president and CEO of the ALF; and Dr. Thomas H. Peterson, medical director of quality at...

If the line stretching all the way down the hallway wasn't enough of a clue, Weill Cornell Medical College employees had to have known something special was going on when they finally got through the front door of the...

Eager and excited Weill Cornell students moments before finding their Match Day results. Dean Antonio M. Gotto Jr. toasts the Class of 2008. A table covered with 96 sealed envelopes awaited the students. Challon Perry (left) celebrates his match...