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Providing medical school education free of debt not only relieves a significant financial burden, it may also help increase the diversity of the medical workforce, according to Weill Cornell Medicine leadership who studied the institution’s own experience.

Heartbeat rhythms may be regulated by a family of enzymes called prolyl isomerases, according to a study from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine.

A new test for measuring the reservoir of HIV hidden in the cells of people with HIV failed to detect this reservoir in a significant number of people with a subtype of HIV-1, according to a study from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine, Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

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Fear of COVID-19 and changes to healthcare delivery during the pandemic may be causing people with substance use disorders to avoid seeking any type of care and thus less likely to get treatment for addiction.

The risk of dying seven years after coronary artery bypass surgery was significantly lower in men receiving multiple bypass grafts rather than single grafts, but there was no apparent difference in mortality between these methods in women.

Her chances of finding a match for a kidney transplant were 1 in 100. Here’s how a stranger helped her defy the odds — and how both their lives irrevocably changed.

The social sciences are essential to understanding how COVID-19 has spread and its impacts on individuals and society.

As the coronavirus vaccine rolls out across the country, an infectious disease expert answers questions about its safety and when it’s likely to be available to the general public.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have gleaned new insights on the ways cells maintain the tips of their chromosomes, or telomeres. The findings help illuminate a wide range of phenomena, from cancer development to fungal evolution.

Patient mistrust of the healthcare system, which has come under new focus during the COVID-19 pandemic, is partly the result of an increasingly consumer-oriented healthcare system, according to a new commentary by a Weill Cornell Medicine investigator.

Ovarian tumors can be made more sensitive to immunotherapy by blocking the recruitment of certain cells to the...

A Cornell-led COVID-19 patient registry, organized by Weill Cornell Medicine physicians and scientists in response to surging cases earlier this year in New York City, continues to be a source of medical insight into the workings of the novel coronavirus and treatment of infected patients.

A gene therapy developed by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators helped slow progression of a rare and fatal genetic disorder in children called late infantile Batten disease, in a phase 1 clinical study.

Mutations in proteins called histone H1, which help package DNA in chromosomes, are a frequent cause of lymphomas, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and The Rockefeller University. The findings could lead to new approaches to treating these cancers.

A significant percentage of patients with urothelial cancers have inherited gene variants that drive the progression of these cancers, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Seeking to advance the scope of precision medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Illumina, Inc. are entering into a collaboration to sequence the complete human genomes of thousands of consenting patients. 

The immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab, known by its brand name Keytruda, is a safe and effective option for patients with locally advanced and metastatic squamous cell esophageal cancer who have already received standard chemotherapy, according to a new study co-authored by a Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigator.

Weill Cornell Medicine has received a renewal of a prestigious grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health to continue cutting-edge clinical research into treating and preventing infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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