In a report published in the Oct. 20 issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center say animal and human data suggest gene therapy to the brain may be able to treat patients with major depression who do not respond to traditional drug treatment.

As many as half of all women and a quarter of men over the age of 50 can expect to sustain a fractured bone related to osteoporosis or low bone density. To enhance prevention and treatment of these fragility fractures, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center has implemented an innovative program called Own the Bone™ developed by the American Orthopaedic Association.

Ovarian cancer is the most deadly disease of the female reproductive system, with most cases diagnosed in later stages. Yet while ovarian cancer affects 1 in 70 women in the United States, many women have never discussed the risk with their doctor.

Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have discovered why statins — popular drugs that lower cholesterol and appear to protect against colorectal cancer development — work for some people, but not for all.

One-year data from the PARTNER clinical trial, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrate that transcatheter aortic-valve implantation, compared with standard therapy, resulted in significantly lower rates of death among patients who cannot undergo surgery for aortic stenosis. The results will be presented tomorrow as a Late Breaking Trial at the 22nd annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the Official Hospital of the New York Yankees, is launching the National Nurses Week celebration locally with a 30-second public service announcement (PSA) on one of the largest HD screens in the sports world. The PSA are being shown at Yankee Stadium during three home games against the Baltimore Orioles on May 3, 4 and 5. National Nurses Week is traditionally celebrated annually during the first week in May.

New York Weill Cornell Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is one of the few centers in the United States to offer two newly approved devices for treating the area of the blockage with radiation. These techniques have been shown to reduce the likelihood of renarrowing of the artery by about 60 percent compared with currently available treatment approaches.

Patients at high risk of a heart attack are being enrolled in a study which examines whether patients provided with information in one of three different ways differ in their levels of individualized knowledge about risks and signs for heart attack.