Two Grants Increase Access to Care Clinical Trials Queens Brooklyn Blood Cancer Patients
Weill Cornell Medicine has received complementary grants from Genentech and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to support a new program that aims to address socioeconomic and racial disparities and increase access to clinical trials for underserved patients with blood cancers living in Brooklyn and Queens.
Pregnant Women Receive Covid Vaccines Pass Antibodies to Babies
Women who receive COVID-19 mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna while in their third trimester of pregnancy generate a strong immune response and pass protective antibodies through umbilical cord blood to their babies.
Researchers Create Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Multi-Omics Analytics Platforms for SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Two distinct diagnostic tests, a host/pathogen RNA sequencing platform, and spatially-resolved tissue mapping tools were created by a multidisciplinary team of Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-led researchers and used to map SARS-CoV-2 infections at the height of the initial COVID-19 outbreak in New York City.
New COVID-19 Saliva Test Developed by Fertility Experts at CUIMC and NYP
Researchers at the Columbia University Fertility Center have developed a rapid and accurate one-step diagnostic test that detects SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in samples of saliva.
NYP BMH Opens World-Class Center for Ambulatory Care: CCH
Today, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital celebrated the opening of the Center for Community Health. The Center for Community Health is a world-class ambulatory care center where leading specialists, working collaboratively under one roof, combine innovative clinical approaches and cutting-edge technology to provide exceptional, comprehensive care to the Brooklyn community.
Gene Therapy Trial for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Now Open at Columbia
A phase 2 clinical trial is underway at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian to test an investigational gene therapy for dry age-related macular degeneration—a progressive, chronic eye disease with no cure and a leading cause of blindness in the United States.
Dr. Petit to Lead Peds Cardiology at NYPMSCH and CU VPS
An international leader in pediatric cardiology, Dr. Christopher J. Petit has been named chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and chief of the pediatric cardiology service at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, effective March 1.
Statin Use Associated with Increased Survival from Severe COVID-19
People who took statins to lower cholesterol were approximately 50% less likely to die if hospitalized for COVID-19, a study by physicians at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian has found.
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