"NY Med," the eight-part television series from ABC News, chronicles the 24/7 drama of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. The documentary from the award winning producers of "Hopkins" and "Boston Med," scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, July 10 at 10:00 PM/ET on ABC, takes a raw and intimate look at life inside the most famous hospital in America's largest city.

A 5-year-old New York girl is recovering at home and undergoing outpatient treatment after an emergency operation involving the removal and partial-re-implantation of her liver and her right kidney along with open heart surgery to resect an otherwise inoperable tumor in February. The 10-hour operation, the first reported emergency pediatric surgery of its kind, was led by Dr. Tomoaki Kato and Dr. Emile Bacha at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

Global health issues such as the AIDS crises in Africa and China have sparked an interest in students to obtain knowledge and training on an international level. Now, Columbia University Health Sciences has formed a new Office for Global Health Training and Education, to serve and develop the global focus for students on the Health Sciences campus.

Columbia University Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital announced the completion of the Toni Stabile Osteoporosis Center, a new standard for treatment, research, and education relating to the disease.

A new drug shows promising results in the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED), reports the December issue of The Journal of Andrology. A study investigator, Dr. John P. Mulhall, Director of the Sexual Medicine Program at Weill Cornell Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, anticipates that the new drug will increase awareness of ED and its ability to be effectively treated.

Dr. Samuel L. Katz is the recipient of the 2007 Pollin Prize in recognition of his contributions to pediatric infectious disease research and vaccine development, especially his instrumental role in the development and application of the measles vaccine. The fifth annual $200,000 Pollin Prize, the largest international award for pediatric research, recognizes outstanding achievement in biomedical or public health research resulting in important improvements to the health of children.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will provide coverage for the use of Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs), heart pumps for chronic end stage heart failure patients who are ineligible for heart transplant, giving hope to thousands of desperately ill heart patients.

Dr. Louis U. Bigliani, a leading expert in the treatment of shoulder disorders and Director of Orthopedic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation.