NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital launched Room Service this weekend, a new dining program offering carefully curated fresh meals that are made to order upon request. The program empowers patients to take control of what they eat and when they eat, and the new menu items reflect the cultural diversity of the patient population.

Dr. Massimo Loda, an internationally renowned molecular pathologist, has been appointed chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and pathologist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective Feb. 1.

The 20th annual “HealthCare’s Most Wired” survey, released by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), has recognized NewYork-Presbyterian as one of the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals of 2018.

Dr. Dan Landau, an assistant professor of medicine and of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and a core member of the New York Genome Center, has received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health for his research on how tumor cells evolve and acquire new mutations to evade cancer therapies.

Older adults with cancer are nearly 70 percent more likely to suffer a stroke or heart attack in the year prior to their diagnosis compared with peers without a cancer diagnosis in that same time period, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators.

At 12:44 a.m. on January 1, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital welcomed its New Year’s Baby, Joseph Patrick Bernstein.

In a phase three clinical trial, a drug called sorafenib stopped progression of desmoid tumors for two years in 80 percent of patients who completed treatment, a significant increase in progression-free survival compared with placebo. (Progression-free survival is the length of time a patient lives without worsening of the disease).

Leading Cancer Researcher to Join Columbia, NewYork-Presbyterian as Cancer Center Director