A new technique for repairing aneurysms in the largest artery of the body has a better survival rate and a speedier recovery time than traditional open surgery to repair the weak blood vessel, researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital report in this month's issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

Debunking a popular myth about vasectomy, a new study by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center finds that vasectomy reversal is highly effective, even 15 years or more after the vas deferens, the tube that carries sperm, is blocked. The study, published in the January Journal of Urology, documents the highest pregnancy rates following vasectomy of any study to date.

Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have shed light on the function of the synapse the gap between nerve cells where information is passed from one cell to the next and solved a 30-year puzzle on how exactly nerve cells transmit signals.

Physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and Weill Cornell are taking part in two important clinical trials designed to treat the epileptic seizures that curtail life for one in every 100 Americans. The trials are known as the "RNS Trial" and the "Intercept Trial," and although their goal is identical, how each gets there is quite different.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of more than $491,000 for the continued development of a robotic surgical instrument server at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/The Allen Pavilion.

A $950,000 grant to fund the study of a new treatment approach for mantle cell lymphoma was recently awarded to Weill Cornell Medical College by the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF). Lymphoma is the most common blood cancer and the third most common childhood cancer. Mantle cell lymphoma is a less common but particularly aggressive form of the disease.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia today announced the opening of the Carmen and John Thain Labor and Delivery Unit, located on the top floor of the recently opened Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. The new unit, which is part of the Sloane Hospital for Women, will offer women and their families a comfortable and technologically advanced health-care setting aimed at providing a first-rate birth experience.

American TeleCare, Inc., was re-selected by the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) Consortium as the primary telehealth technology provider for another four-year, $4.5 million project serving rural and inner-city New York residents with diabetes.