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2010 FEB 1 -- Studying animals in behavioral experiments has been a cornerstone of psychological research, but whether the observations are relevant for human behavior has been unclear. Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have identified an alteration to......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 JUL 20 -- Depression in older adults too often goes unrecognized and untreated, resulting in untold misery, worsening of medical illness, and early death. A new study has identified one important remedy: Adding a trained depression care manager to primary......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 DEC 7 -- A first-of-its-kind consensus statement on diabetes surgery is published online today in the Annals of Surgery. The report illustrates the findings of the first international consensus conference -- Diabetes Surgery Summit (DSS) -- where an......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 AUG 10 -- A large attack on a major metropolitan area with airborne anthrax could affect more than a million people, necessitating their treatment with powerful antibiotics. A new study finds that in order for a response to be effective, quick detection......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 AUG 24 -- For the 29,000 patients in the United States with metastatic colorectal cancer, chemotherapy with irinotecan is a standard treatment that has been shown to improve survival. But for more than one in 10 of these patients, a variation in their DNA......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 DEC 7 -- Laparoscopic surgery has been used in the treatment of intestinal disorders for close to 20 years, but its benefits have only recently begun to be extended to people with rectal cancer. In a prospective study of 103 patients who underwent......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 JUL 6 -- For patients with the most common form of hepatitis C, the addition of a hepatitis C–specific protease inhibitor called telaprevir to the current standard therapy can significantly improve the chances of being cured, and it does it in half the......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 DEC 7 -- Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects lymphocytes, or white blood cells. By......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 OCT 5 -- Genes previously known to be essential to the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of cardiac muscle -- a healthy heartbeat -- have now also been found to play a key role in thyroid hormone (TH) biosynthesis, according to Weill Cornell......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2010 FEB 1 -- In a significant step toward restoring healthy blood circulation to treat a variety of diseases, a team of scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College has developed a new technique and described a novel mechanism for turning human embryonic and......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 AUG 17 -- Researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have discovered a new gene fusion that is highly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers. The results may lead to more accurate prostate cancer testing and new targets......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 JUL 7 -- New research shows that physicians failed to report clinically significant abnormal test results to patients -- or to document that they had informed them -- in one out of every 14 cases of abnormal results. In some medical groups, the failure......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2010 JAN 25 -- New research has shown that reducing the dosage of dopamine agonist (DA) drugs, a mainstay treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD), sometimes causes acute withdrawal symptoms similar to those reported by cocaine addicts -- including anxiety,......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 SEP 21 -- QRS duration (QRSd) is one of several measures of heart function recorded during a routine electrocardiogram (ECG). It is a composite of waves showing the length of time it takes for an electrical signal to get all the way through the pumping......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2010 JAN 18 -- A tumor's genetic profile is often useful when diagnosing and deciding on treatment for certain cancers, but inexplicably, genetically similar leukemias in different patients do not always respond well to the same therapy. Weill Cornell Medical......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 NOV 16 -- Substances naturally produced by the human body may one day help prevent paralysis following a spinal cord injury, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College. A recent $2.5 million grant from the New York State Spinal Cord Injury......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2010 FEB 8 -- Preserving organs on ice prior to transplantation, an approach known as cold storage or CS, has been the standard practice in liver transplant for 20 years. Now there is new evidence that a technique called hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) may......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 OCT 13 -- New research by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers looks at the specific ways parents and peers influence teenagers to smoke, drink and use marijuana in combination. Among their findings: attitudes toward smoking influenced teenagers' use......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 OCT 12 -- Attempts to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) are stymied by the fact that the disease-causing bacteria have a sophisticated mechanism for surviving dormant in infected cells. Now, a team of scientists led by researchers from Weill Cornell Medical......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
2009 NOV 30 -- Neurosurgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first intra-arterial cerebral infusion of Avastin (bevacizumab) directly into a patient's malignant brain tumor. This novel intra-arterial (IA)......
Subject: New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
