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Research to Elucidate Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Dysfunction and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus NEW YORK (Dec. 17, 2007) — The Leon Levy Foundation has awarded over $1.4 million in grants to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City in support of...

Less-Invasive and Less-Costly Spine Surgery Option NEW YORK (Dec. 17, 2007) — Each year, 40 to 60 percent of American adults suffer from chronic back pain. More than one million spine surgery procedures are performed annually, with medical costs to...

Weill Cornell Scientists Use Cutting-Edge Methods to Show That Neurotransmitter Packets Must Be Rebuilt After Each Cycle NEW YORK (Dec. 13, 2007) — For the first time, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have observed in...

Society for Neuroscience Award Honors His Work into Understanding the Brain and Nervous System NEW YORK (Dec. 13, 2007) — A leading authority on neurological disorders of consciousness, Dr. Nicholas Schiff of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York...

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Study Presents Prescription for Preventing Major Killers—Obesity, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease NEW YORK (Dec. 13, 2007) — A new study by a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientist has an important message for the elderly: It's not too late...

NEW YORK (Dec. 12, 2007) — Weill Cornell Medical College has received two grants totaling $2.4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help fight tuberculosis, an epidemic that infects one-third of the world's people and kills nearly...

Drug, Alone or in Combination, Eliminated Stroke Risk, Weill Cornell Team Reports NEW YORK (Dec. 12, 2007) — Telmisartan, a drug widely used to help control blood pressure, may have uniquely potent activity in preventing stroke, according to a new...

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Study Identifies Cases That Necessitate Surgery NEW YORK (Dec. 11, 2007) — In as many as one in five people over age 55, when the heart contracts to send blood around the body, some degree of backward leakage...

Kinesin Motor Proteins Are Tied to Specific Transport Processes; Finding Should Aid Drug Development, Weill Cornell Team Says NEW YORK (Dec. 10, 2007) — With findings highlighted on a recent cover of Developmental Cell, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College...

NEW YORK (Dec. 8, 2007) — Leading hematologists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are presenting new basic and clinical research findings at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in Atlanta, Dec. 8-11. Among the...

Activates a Stress-Linked Pathway in Neurons to Release Key Genes, Weill Cornell Team Reports NEW YORK (Dec. 7, 2007) — Alcohol triggers the activation of a variety of genes that can influence the health and activity of brain cells, and...

Infections as a Cause of Cancer: A History and Outlook—Presentation @ AACR PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 5, 2007) — Cancer—popularly understood as a result of mutations or mistakes within the genetic code in cells—is also caused by infections from viruses, bacteria and...

Dr. Richard Silver, professor of medicine, served as chairman of the 4th International Patient Symposium on Myeloproliferative Diseases, held Nov. 7 in New York City. In addition, Dr. Silver spoke on treatment of polycythemia vera (PV), a myeloproliferative disorder...

The career of Dr. Bruce McCandliss, a psychologist at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology and associate professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, is relatively young but already quite distinguished. He is a highly productive,...

Cutting the ribbon to open the brand-new Griffis Faculty Club were (from left) William Greene, vice president of clinical services at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell; Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr., dean of the Medical College; Taasha Ramsay, manager of Griffis Faculty...

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell — Led International Clinical Research Trial Found Platelet Growth Factor Decreased Bleeding in Patients with the Autoimmune Bleeding Disorder NEW YORK (Nov. 29, 2007) — There are estimated to be between 50,000—100,000 individuals in the U.S. diagnosed with...

Women's Social Isolation, Lack of Female Participants in Clinical Trials Largely to Blame, Study Suggests NEW YORK (Nov. 20, 2007) — Though arterial vascular disease is widespread and often deadly among older American women, doctors too often fail to spot...

David J. Rothman, Ph.D. The first Heberden Society Lecture of the 2007-2008 academic year will be delivered by David J. Rothman, Ph.D., on Thursday, Nov. 29, at 5:00 p.m., in the Uris Faculty Room (A-126) of Weill Cornell Medical...

Dr. Norman Relkin (above) and Dr. Lisa Ravdin (below) speaking on Alzheimer's research and memory loss at the Women's Health Symposium, Oct. 11. Twenty-five years ago, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Women's Health Symposium Committee, a group of women...

The death rates from tuberculosis in the United States dropped so drastically between 1900 and 1960 that the disease was on the verge of extinction. And that sharp decline began decades before chemotherapy was introduced as an effective medical...