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.

Women with waistlines of 35 inches or more are at greater risk of heart disease than thinner women, according to a new study by researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and Sister to Sister: Everyone Has a Heart Foundation. The study is published in today's Journal of Women's Health.

Contrary to popular myth, expressing anger in the moment is not healthy. According to a new book, Getting Control of Your Anger: A Clinically Proven, Three-Step Plan for Getting to the Root of the Problem and Resolving It (McGraw-Hill, 2006) by Dr. Robert Allan, a noted clinical psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, for most people and in most circumstances, directly expressed anger will only make a bad situation worse. The book outlines ways to stop alienating loved ones, live a happier healthier life, and reduce the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke.