Laura Swalm

In a rare procedure last year, a multidisciplinary transplant team at NewYork-Presbyterian performed the state’s first heart, double lung, and liver transplant.

In one of the first split-root domino partial heart transplants in the United States, one heart saved the lives of three children, offering new opportunities for pediatric patients with cardiovascular disease.

Though he was born with a heart defect, Mati Luik didn’t let that stop him from living an active lifestyle until he collapsed on the court one day. In 2023, he became the first patient to receive a heart transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

A unique program provides doulas to support parents through labor, delivery, and postpartum care.

When a rare liver disease left Lauren Toby in need of a transplant, her husband, DJ, stepped up to be her living donor.

Watch the chief of sports medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center give his advice on how players can best protect themselves on the soccer field.

To show how living organ donors can still achieve great physical feats, Steve Wilson scaled the tallest mountain in Africa — and has more adventures on the horizon.

After college softball player Sarah Taffet suffered cardiac arrest during a game, doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia discovered she had a rare heart condition and performed lifesaving surgery. Now, she is back playing the sport she loves.

NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital became a second home for Anthony Donahue and his sister, Gianna. After she passed away, Anthony resolved to stay in touch with their “hospital family” and, together, they keep Gianna’s spirit alive through a holiday toy drive.

From heavy backpacks to scoliosis, two NewYork-Presbyterian experts discuss the causes of back pain in children and what kids can do to keep their backs healthy as they return to school.