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As a teenager, Jonathan Bar was required to learn first aid and CPR as a condition of earning his black belt in tae kwon do. That training set him on the path to his calling as an emergency medicine physician.

In July 2012, a young man with a history of erratic behavior opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing twelve people and injuring seventy more.

Infertility affects about 12 percent of American couples, many of whom turn to a fertility specialist after failing to conceive or carry a pregnancy to term.

A leading scientist and immunologist, Dr. Gary Koretzky has been appointed vice dean, focused on academic integration at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine, effective July 1. Dr. Carl Nathan will succeed Dr. Koretzky as dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, effective Sept. 1.

Four Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have been awarded the Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research to support their research projects.

Some 30,000 patients enrolled in NewYork Quality Care, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) of NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine, will now be able to view their physician’s appointment notes in order to better understand their care.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered an innovative method to make an unlimited supply of healthy blood cells from the readily available cells that line blood vessels. 

Stem cells preserve their identities after cell division by using a series of protein “bookmarks” on their genes,...

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s Commencement was as much a milestone for the 45 new physicians as it was for the institution, which celebrated graduating its 10th class.

A compound identified by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists inhibits the growth of a rare blood cancer found in people with HIV-AIDS. 

Milka Doktorova realized early into her PhD research that she might need to work in two different labs, hundreds of miles apart.

Technological advances — better breathing machines and a revolutionary surgical implant — offer relief to the rising number of patients With sleep apnea.

Up to 30 percent of HIV patients who are appropriately treated with antiretroviral therapies develop the chronic lung disease emphysema in their lifetime. 

Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson, senior advisor for medical education and a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has won the 2017 Distinguished Educator Award from the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA).

“When I took parasitology in my second year of medical school, I was surprised to learn that there were so many diseases that were major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide that weren’t major problems in the U.S. I ended up going to Brazil to study mucocutaneous leishmaniasis.

Researchers have long struggled to develop preclinical models of colorectal cancer in which the disease forms in the correct anatomical location.

Dr. Ghazaleh Ashrafi, a postdoctoral associate in biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medicine, has won a 2017 Tri-Institutional Breakout Award for Junior Investigators.

As an undergraduate student, Du Cheng invented a laboratory camera adapter that would allow scientists to capture images with an iPhone and then view them through a microscope.

A two-decade-old study on an experimental Parkinson's treatment offers clues to new therapies.

Dr. Roth was newly married and fresh from an oncology fellowship when she became a cancer patient. In a Q&A, Dr. Roth shares her story as a physician, cancer survivor and distance runner.