The Avon Foundation has awarded a one-year $50,000 grant to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Family PEACE (Promoting Education Advocacy Collaboration and Empowerment) Program in collaboration with Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC) to fund community outreach and interventions for children exposed to domestic violence.

On Friday, October 24, several of our nurses, along with Wilhelmina Manzano, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, were featured on the Emmy Award-winning news magazine NOW on PBS for a segment which explored the nursing shortage and innovative measures aimed at reversing the trend.

Clinical research at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is helping bring the advantages of robotic surgery, including reduced pain and quicker recovery, to kidney cancer patients.

The American Heart Association (AHA) has selected numerous physician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center to present their clinical research at the AHA's Scientific Sessions 2004. The four-day conference began this weekend at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

There is a new option for patients suffering from hip pain who do not want to give up their active lifestyle. NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center is one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to offer a new alternative for total hip replacement: hip resurfacing. The technique allows the orthopedic surgeon to shave and cap several centimeters of bone within the hip joint, helping to preserve bone and joint stability for young or active patients. The Innovative Birmingham Hip Resurfacing™ System preserves more of the patient's natural bone structures and stability, covering the joint's surfaces with an all-metal implant that more closely resembles a tooth cap than a hip implant. This approach reduces post-operative risks of dislocation and inaccurate leg length, and because the all-metal implant is made from durable, smooth cobalt chrome, it has the potential to last longer than traditional hip implants.

Adolescent girl athletes are as much as eight times more likely to injure their knee's anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) than their male counterparts, according to a recent study led by Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center. Published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, the study looks at the reasons why the knee injury disproportionately affects mature girls. The study's author, Dr. Christopher S. Ahmad, also addresses how to prevent and treat the condition.

To better reflect the quality and extent of the psychiatry programs and services offered at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City and Westchester, both locations will now operate under the Payne Whitney name. In New York City, Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic will now be known as Payne Whitney Manhattan, and, on the campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division, all psychiatry programs and services will now be known as Payne Whitney Westchester.

For many people, the older years are far from golden. Illness, loneliness, or the death of a spouse or friends can cause depression to become a constant companion. Depression is the most common diagnosis of those who commit suicide.