During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, health care workers on the front lines had high levels of acute stress, anxiety, and depression, a study by researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian has found.

A study of nearly 400 pregnant women in New York City is among the first to show that lower neighborhood socioeconomic status and greater household crowding increase the risk of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

In two new papers, pediatricians from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital describe two types of serious, but rare, COVID-19 disease that can occur in children.

In randomized clinical trials, commercial sponsorship influences how studies are designed and the results reported in ways that often benefit the study’s sponsor, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators report in a new study. The findings underscore the need to improve study design, reporting and guidelines to avoid bias in these trials, the authors say.

Critical care physicians, infectious disease specialists and pulmonologists from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian have published a clinical practice guide for managing severe COVID-19 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Clinical practice guides are provided by medical journals and associations to help physicians worldwide reach the best health care decisions for patients with complicated illnesses.

Dr. Anna Burgansky, director of obstetrics and gynecology, chief of the division of general OB/GYN at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital, and an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons provides 10 tips women should know about Pregnancy and COVID-19.

One of the nation’s preeminent neurosurgeons, E. Sander Connolly Jr., MD, has been named chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also will serve as neurosurgeon-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna has been appointed chief of neurological surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Dr. Ramakrishna, who is also the Alvina and Willis Murphy Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, will now lead the growing neurosurgery department in Brooklyn.