The New York State Department of Health has announced that NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is a designated Inherited Metabolic Disease Specialty Center -- one of only nine in the state.

The drug telaprevir (Incivek) provides a dramatic improvement in the treatment of the most common form of hepatitis C infection, says an international team of investigators led by Dr. Ira M. Jacobson.

Bariatric surgery should be considered earlier in the treatment of eligible patients to help stem the serious complications that can result from diabetes, according to an International Diabetes Federation (IDF) position statement presented by leading experts at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes in New York.

New Study in the Journal Health Affairs Reports on Results of Ongoing Regional Health Collaborative Through One of the Nation's Largest Networks of Patient-Centered Medical Homes

For the eleventh straight year, NewYork-Presbyterian has more physicians listed in New York Magazine's "Best Doctors" survey than any other hospital. The magazine lists 191 NewYork-Presbyterian physicians representing 17 percent of the 1,144 New York City–area doctors listed.

New York-Presbyterian physicians will host a five-week series on treatments for esophageal and lung cancer beginning on Wednesday, July 27, 2011.

A NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center review of almost 500,000 cardiac cases nationally shows that the clinically indicated medical therapy reported in a widely publicized study was lost in translation to real-world heart care after its publication.

A leading autism authority who is helping transform the way autism spectrum disorders are diagnosed and treated, Dr. Catherine Lord has been named director of the new Institute for Brain Development at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University Medical Center. She will also be appointed to the faculties of Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.