Investigators have determined that moderate alcohol consumption by the elderly reduces the risk of the most common type of stroke.

Scientists have successfully used a new technique to identify the genetic mutation that causes sickle cell anemia. For the first time, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has resulted in the birth of healthy twin girls to a couple where both partners were carriers for the sickle cell trait.

The brain under general anesthesia isn't "asleep" as surgery patients are often told -- it is placed into a state that is a reversible coma, according to three neuroscientists who have published an extensive review of general anesthesia, sleep and coma, in the Dec. 30 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. This insight and others reported in their review article could eventually lead to new approaches to general anesthesia and improved diagnosis and treatment for sleep abnormalities and emergence from coma.

One of only a handful of physicians with formal training in both vascular surgery and interventional radiology, Dr. Darren B. Schneider has been appointed chief of vascular and endovascular surgery and director of the Center for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He has also been named associate professor of surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College.

CIO magazine has named NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital one of the nation's information technology leaders. The award highlights myNYP.org, the Hospital's online personal health record that gives patients the ability to select and store personal medical information generated during their doctor and hospital visits at NewYork-Presbyterian.

Louis J. Aronne, M.D., F.A.C.P., Judith Korner, M.D., Ph.D., and Francesco Rubino, M.D. lead a lively webcast discussion on medical and surgical treatments available for patients with Type 2 diabetes.

For patients with the most common form of hepatitis C being treated for the first time, the addition of an investigational hepatitis C–specific protease inhibitor called telaprevir to the current standard therapy markedly improved their sustained viral response (SVR or viral cure) rate

Every year, thousands of Americans die waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant because there just aren’t enough organ donors.