The risks of stroke and heart failure in an individual increase as the number of social determinants of health increase, according to two new studies by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The social factors that affect health include race, education level, annual household income and neighborhood poverty.
The conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age, referred to in the studies as social determinants of health or...
The greatly increased risk of cancer and cancer mortality with aging may be due in part to the buildup in the body of a key cancer-promoting molecule, according to new preclinical research from...
The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States population this spring may have been 80 times greater than official reports, according to the estimates of a study published June 22 in Science Translational Medicine. The investigators used influenza-like illness (ILI) outpatient surveillance data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New...
Each year, 80,000 people in the United States are newly diagnosed with bladder cancer, and more than 17,000 lose their lives due to the disease. It ranks as the fourth most common type...
A veteran primary care physician, internist Dr. Fred Pelzman can count on one hand the times he’s stayed home sick in his quarter-century career. But they pale in comparison to his most recent illness—a bout of COVID-19 that laid him low for nearly two weeks in mid-March, just as the pandemic was escalating in New York City. Dr. Pelzman—the medical director of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates, an associate professor of...
Tiny packets called extracellular vesicles and particles (EVPs), released by cancer and immune cells, contain specific proteins that may serve as reliable biomarkers for diagnosing...
Inside neurons, the protein tau (green) moves from axons (blue), where it is normally located, to the cell body and dendrites (red), disrupting the vital link between neural activity and blood flow, which contributes to cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration. Image courtesy of Dr. Laibaik Park and Dr. Costantino Iadecola.
Public housing projects in New York City: Credit: Shutterstock
Weill Cornell Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health for COVID-19 research. The two-...
CARING TEAM (left to right): M.D.-Ph.D. student Matthew Wickersham; Dr. Jessica Zonana; MD-PhD student Constance Zhou; and Dr. Jessica Spellun. Credit: John Abbott
Dr. Erica Phillips, (below, left), and David Nanus, MD (below, right), speak at a prostate health fair in September at Brooklyn’s Vanderveer Park United Methodist Church, where participants received not only information but diagnostic testing and individual consultations.
Depiction of a hospitalized COVID-19 patient. Credit: Shutterstock
Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators examined patient data to determine how obesity and inflammatory bowel disease affect SARS-CoV-2 infection...
Certain patterns of injury may help doctors distinguish physical elder abuse, which is rarely reported, from unintentional falls, according to new research from emergency medicine specialists at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.
In the study, published July 23 in Annals of Emergency Medicine, the researchers compared 78...
Table with syringes and a medical laryngoscope. Credit: Shutterstock
A common ear, nose, and throat (ENT) office procedure that involves examining a patient’s throat, known as a laryngoscopy, does not produce aerosol droplets any more than...
Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian clinicians shared strategies that have been implemented at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center to meet the unprecedented need for critical care and recovery from COVID-19 in two recently published papers.
Two studies from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators suggest that maternal-to-child transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is rare; however, one study found that complications after birth occurred for some mothers infected with the virus.
Home health care workers faced increased risks to their physical, mental and financial well-being while providing essential care to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech and Cornell University.
