NEW YORK (Dec. 30, 2010) — The brain under general anesthesia isn’t “asleep” as surgery patients are often told — it is placed into a state that is a reversible coma, according to three neuroscientists who have published an extensive review of …
NEW YORK (Nov. 3, 2010) — Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have taken an important step toward a better understanding of prostate cancer by uncovering evidence that it is not one disease, as previously believed, but rather several factors…
NEW YORK (Nov. 3, 2010) — Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a type of aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that accounts for approximately 40 percent of lymphomas among adults. If left untreated, it is fatal. The existing treatments have a c…
NEW YORK (November 2, 2010) — For patients with the most common form of hepatitis C being treated for the first time, the addition of an investigational hepatitis C — specific protease inhibitor called telaprevir to the current standard therapy mar…
NEW YORK (Oct. 28, 2010) — Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have identified a potential new treatment for the Nipah and Hendra viruses, two lethal and emerging viruses for which there is currently no treatment or vaccine available. The a…
New York, NY, September 9, 2010 — The use of stem cells for research and their possible application in the treatment of disease are hotly debated topics. In a special issue of Translational Research published this month an international group of m…
The widespread use of a simplified clinical tool to estimate future coronary risk could lead to the classification of millions of Americans into different risk groups than when using the original, “gold-standard” tool. Millions of patients may ha…
NEW YORK (August 20, 2010) — Casual smokers may think that smoking a few cigarettes a week is “no big deal.” But according to new research from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, having an infrequent…
Scientists have discovered how estrogen initiates physical changes in rodent brain cells that lead to increased learning and memory — a finding, the researchers contend, that illustrates the likely value of the hormone to enhance brain functioning in women. Their study, published in the March 15 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, describes for the first time a chain of molecular events that is activated in the brain’s primary memory center, called the hippocampus, when estrogen bathes nerve cells.