NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center now offers autologous islet cell transplantation, or auto islet surgery, to prevent diabetes in patients who require a total pancreatectomy. The hospital is the first center in the New York metropolitan area to offer this treatment.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has introduced a new electronic personal health record, enabling its patients to access their medical information wherever and whenever they need it.

Dr. Robyn Gmyrek, dermatologist and director of the Skin and Laser Center at NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, says there is no such thing as a safe tan, any tan is a result of DNA damage.

Researchers who participated in the WIN-R trial, the largest hepatitis C study ever conducted in U.S. patients, reported key factors affecting treatment outcomes in five data presentations here at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW) annual meeting, and provided important insights for optimizing treatment with PEG-INTRON® (peginterferon alfa-2b) and REBETOL® (ribavirin, USP) combination therapy for patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, a potentially deadly liver disease. WIN-R (Weight-Based Dosing of PEG-INTRON and (REBETOL), a community-based trial, involved more than 4,900 patients at 225 centers across the United States.

Most children experience some degree of apprehension and excitement as the first day of school approaches, but what does it mean when a child is overcome with fear at the thought of separating from parents and caregivers to go to class?

Take extra care this Fourth of July and at all of your summer gatherings by ensuring that accidents do not interfere with warm weather fun.

In a novel approach to stroke research, investigators from NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center will collaborate to create the New York Stroke Trials Network of Columbia and Cornell. The network is one of 25 regional stroke centers across the country funded by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Trials Network (NIH StrokeNet), announced by the National Institutes of Health in December 2013.

Dr. Francis Lee, a psychiatrist and scientist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has received a commendation by the president of the United States in the form of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for outstanding scientists and engineers in the early part of their independent research careers.