About 15% of pregnant women admitted to two maternity wards in northern Manhattan in late March and early April were already infected with the new coronavirus, though most had no symptoms, according to a new study by physicians at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian.

During the peak of the New York City coronavirus pandemic, NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital supplied equipment, redeployed personnel, and rapidly transformed their operating rooms (OR) to assist NewYork-Presbyterian’s system-wide response to the mas-sive influx of critically-ill adult patients with COVID-19.

As much of the country continues to self-isolate due to the coronavirus pandemic, medical centers across the United States are joining forces to start a country-wide movement of physical activity to honor and support frontline healthcare workers who have worked tirelessly to save lives. #FitForTheFrontLine is a national fitness challenge beginning Tuesday, May 26, and culminating on Sunday, June 14 (Flag Day). The event encourages Americans young and old to move, exercise, and get fit to increase awareness and raise funds to support our nation’s health care heroes.

How do adult patients who are hospitalized with severe COVID-19 fare? Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center have just released the largest prospective study in the United States to answer that question.

A study of nearly 1,400 patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 disease at a single New York hospital found that patients who received the drug fared no better than patients who did not receive the drug.

On April 25, the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded NewYork-Presbyterian’s Health Matters an Emmy in the category of Human Interest: Program Feature/Segment. The video of veteran paramedic John Episcopo sharing his story as a first responder on 9/11 beat out six other nominees.

Dr. Bo Shen, an internationally renowned innovator in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), has been named section head and medical director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and professor of medicine (in surgery) and vice chair for innovation in Medicine and Surgery at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center as two of 88 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals that have achieved meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2018.