NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital ranks #1 in New York and among the top 10 in the nation out of the nearly 5,000 hospitals evaluated by U.S. News & World Report for its 2012-13 Best Hospitals rankings. One of the largest and most comprehensive medical centers in the nation, the Hospital is currently being spotlighted on the critically-acclaimed national medical series "NY Med" from ABC News, which airs at 10 p.m. (ET) Tuesday evenings throughout the summer.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Learn about the symptoms and risk factors for colorectal cancer and screenings available at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has selected Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to participate in a new national effort to accelerate the development of therapies for people with neurological diseases. NeuroNEXT (for Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials) links 25 sites through a common research infrastructure, streamlining the process to conduct clinical trials of promising therapies.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a computer program that has tracked the manner in which different forms of dementia spread within a human brain. They say their mathematic model can be used to predict where and approximately when an individual patient's brain will suffer from the spread, neuron to neuron, of "prion-like" toxic proteins — a process they say underlies all forms of dementia.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Westchester Division is the first hospital to join Westchester County's Westchester Green Business Challenge, a program which encourages companies and organizations to voluntarily "green" their operations and the environment.

An innovative procedure to streamline a robotic partial nephrectomy, the surgical removal of a kidney tumor, significantly reduces the critical time the kidney is without blood flow, otherwise known as warm ischemia time (W.I.T), by nearly 25 percent, according to an analysis led by researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.

A supporter and champion of biomedical research, Dr. Herbert Pardes, executive vice chairman of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Board of Trustees, has established and endowed a prestigious award that will be presented annually to a physician-scientist whose research exemplifies the very best in scientific advancement and innovation.

For the twelfth straight year, NewYork-Presbyterian has more physicians listed in New York Magazine's prestigious "Best Doctors" annual survey than any other hospital. The magazine lists 198 NewYork-Presbyterian physicians — representing 17 percent of the 1,160 New York metro-area doctors listed.