Ongoing hassles at work are a real threat to health because they can raise blood pressure over the long term... right? Wrong. While no one disagrees that a fight with the boss can send blood pressure skywards for an hour or so, the most comprehensive review of the literature on the subject ever conducted finds little evidence that day-to-day work woes affect chronic blood pressure, one way or the other.

An electrocardiogram (ECG) is an effective tool for detecting risk of congestive heart failure (CHF) in patients with hypertension, according to a new study by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and published in today's journal Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The findings may help increase early detection and treatment of CHF.

UNIVISION/Channel 41 celebrated health week from August 23-30. As part of this health initiative (and in collaboration with NYP) the network hosted a town hall on women’s health on Friday, August 29, in the Myrna L. Daniels Auditorium and the Riverview Terrace.

The Mesothelioma Center within the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center is now recruiting patients for a clinical research study of a new targeted radiation and chemotherapy protocol for pleural mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung's lining that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has created an expanded cancer program dedicated to advancing research, prevention and treatment of the disease. The new Cancer Center is led by renowned cancer physician-scientist Dr. Andrew Dannenberg.

A team of researchers has discovered a genetic mutation that causes cardiac myxomas (or Carney complex), the most common tumor of the heart in adults. The mutation causes an insufficiency in a common enzyme that regulates molecular signalling for growth and metabolism within cells throughout the body as well as the heart. The discovery may lead not only to a new genetic technique for early diagnosis and treatment of the tumor, but to novel therapies to regenerate heart cells/tissue in individuals with heart failure and weakened hearts.

The rate of psychiatric illness among children who lost a parent in the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack doubled -- from about 32 to nearly 73 percent -- in the years following the event, according to a new study from researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. More than half (56.8 percent) of the young children studied suffered from some sort of anxiety disorder, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affected nearly three in 10 bereaved children.

A renowned expert in outcomes research and evidence-based medicine in otolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat -- or ENT), Dr. Michael G. Stewart has been appointed Chairman of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Otorhinolaryngologist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Stewart was previously affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and several institutions in the Texas Medical Center in Houston.