As many as one quarter of HIV patients have drug resistance, limiting their treatment options and raising their risk for AIDS and death. Now, maraviroc, the first of a new class of HIV drugs called CCR5 receptor antagonists, has been shown to be effective over 48 weeks for drug-resistant patients with R5 HIV-1, a variation of the virus found in more than half of HIV-infected patients.

The Lang Youth Medical Program for middle and high school students — the only hospital-based medical mentoring program of its kind in New York City — will welcome this year's class of students, who will be honored in a special white-coat ceremony, and celebrate the accomplishments of its first class of graduating seniors. The Oct. 29 event will be held at 6 p.m. at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian.

A leading authority in minimally invasive breast cancer surgery and cancer prevention, Dr. Sheldon Feldman has been appointed chief of breast surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and assistant professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the top academic medical center in the nation for employee engagement — including job satisfaction, concern for patient care and effective communication — according to a new survey by HR Solutions Inc., a Chicago-based consulting firm.

Leading fertility experts at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center are presenting new research findings at the 64th annual American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) meeting in San Francisco, Nov. 8–12.

The fifth leading cause of cancer in the United States, lymphoma is made up of more than 40 rare and highly diverse diseases that target the body's lymphatic system. Lymphomas include both one of the fastest growing cancers — Burkitt's lymphoma, which can double in size in as little as a day — and one of the slowest, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Phase I results of the first clinical trial of gene therapy for patients with advanced heart failure show the approach to be promising, with improvements in several measures of the condition's severity.

Clinician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are suggesting an immediate and important change to guidelines used in the care of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The researchers say that following TBI, patients should be given nutritional supplementation through a gastric feeding tube as soon as possible, which they say can improve their chances of survival by as much as four-fold.