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NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Findings Published in September 13 JAMA NEW YORK (September 12, 2006) — For high-blood-pressure patients, preventing or reducing enlarged heart (left ventricular hypertrophy, LVH) reduces risk of atrial fibrillation (AF or afib), a life-threatening condition that can lead...

Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Focused on Patient Care, Research and Education NEW YORK (September 12, 2006) — NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center today celebrated the opening of the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Made possible...

101 Students Begin their Weill Cornell Careers with the White Coat Dean Antonio Gotto recites the Hippocratic Oath to new students at the 2006 White Coat Ceremony and Opening Exercises. Dr. Carla Boutin-Foster stressed the importance of finding a...

Calls for Increased Collaboration Between Campuses Cornell's 12th president, Dr. David J. Skorton, enjoys inauguration day, Sept. 7. Photo by Jason Koski/Cornell University Photography. Dr. Antonio Gotto, provost for medical affairs and dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. Photo...

Addressing Challenges in Communications and Triage NEW YORK (September 7, 2006) — With the nation's busiest burn center and the metropolitan area's largest hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) fleet, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital rescued and treated many survivors of the Sept. 11,...

NEW YORK (August 29, 2006) — An authority in neonatal congenital anomalies, pediatric thoracic surgery and pediatric surgical oncology, Dr. Nitsana Spigland has been appointed chief of pediatric surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is associate professor of...

NEW YORK (August 29, 2006) — A noted authority in cosmetic surgery, reconstruction following cancer surgery and trauma, as well as tissue-engineered approaches to wound healing, Dr. Robert T. Grant has been appointed to chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery...

Last year, Weill Cornell physician-researchers Dr. Ronald Crystal and Dr. Shahin Rafii gave a pair of lectures on genomics and stem cell biology at Weill Cornell Medical College–Qatar that had a kind of mythic effect on the students. "They...

Dear Cornellians, I write to welcome all of you to the beginning of the 2006-07 academic year and to thank so many of you for making our transition to Cornell University so smooth and gratifying. My wife, Robin Davisson,...

Gateways participants hear firsthand about life as MD-PhD students from Tri-Institutional MD-PhD students. Sitting around a conference table in a book-lined room in Olin Hall, 15 biomedical research scientists gathered for lunch to discuss some of the highlights and...

Dr. Joseph Fins (far right) and his family with faculty and students from the University of Marburg in the Austrian Alps. Photo courtesy of Dr. Fins. Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and professor of...

Study Is Lead Article in JAMA and a Highlight of 2006 International AIDS Meeting NEW YORK (Aug. 10, 2006) — Adding a fourth medication to a standard three-drug "cocktail" employed to suppress HIV and prevent AIDS does not improve the...

First Research Projects to be Funded under the Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative NEW YORK (August 2, 2006) — The Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative, comprised of three leading New York City biomedical research institutions — Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller...

Highly Targeted Agent Stops the Cancer in Animal Model and May Fight Other Tumor Types NEW YORK (Aug. 1, 2006) -- An experimental drug targeted to a cancer-causing mechanism within the cell may be a powerful weapon against deadly multiple...

During Endocytosis, Synaptic Vesicles Swap Needed Proteins with a Pre-Existing Pool on the Brain Cell's Surface NEW YORK (July 28, 2006) — Almost every neurological activity depends on the passage of information between brain cells via the synapse. Now, biochemists...

Weill Cornell Team Turns Betulonic Acid into Potential Bio-Available Drug NEW YORK (July 24, 2006) — A compound found in the bark of the white birch tree — betulonic acid, a derivative of betulinol — may finally have been rendered...