Orthopedic surgeons at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) have recently added several breakthrough procedures for cartilage repair, giving athletes with formerly career-ending injuries a new lease on their sporting lives. Where once articular cartilage damage meant that a patient’s years as an athlete would grind to a halt, advanced osteochondral autograft or allograft transplantation (OATS) procedures performed at NYM are enabling a high percentage of athletes to reach peak levels again.

New York Methodist Hospital will host a free lung cancer screening awareness day. The Second Annual Fred L. Mazzilli Lung Cancer Screening Awareness Day will feature free blood pressure and spirometry screenings, giveaways, celebrity appearances and an educational lecture. Light refreshments will be served. The event will take place Thursday, November 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hospital''s Carrington Pavilion Atrium, located at 506 Sixth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Call 718.780.5367 for more information and to register (required).

New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) will host the second annual Fred L. Mazzilli Lung Cancer Screening Awareness Day on Thursday, November 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Hospital’s Carrington Pavilion Atrium, located at 506 Sixth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn.

New York Methodist Hospital’s (NYM) fourth annual Red Stocking Soirée benefit will be held on Wednesday, November 19 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Hospital’s Carrington Pavilion, 506 Sixth Street in Brooklyn.

New York Methodist Hospital offers a free monthly senior seminar series at Brooklyn College. This month join Michael McCommiskey as he presents a workshop the ancient Chinese practice of Qigong meditation, relaxation and exercise on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Brooklyn College Student Center located at East 27th Street and Campus Road.

Happy New Year! New York Methodist Hospital’s first baby of 2015 was born at 2:56 a.m. in the morning on January 1.

"Brooklyn welcomes the New York Methodist-Cornell Heart Center," said Marty Markowitz, then-Brooklyn Borough President, during a tour of the brand new cardiac surgery suite housed on the third floor of NYM's Carrington Pavilion. It was April of 2004, and after years of intensive planning, construction and the hiring of exceptionally trained and experienced staff, the Center had just opened its doors, including one of only three cardiac surgery centers in Brooklyn.

Specialists at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) have broken new ground in the fight against gastrointestinal (GI) cancer through the addition of an advanced nonsurgical tr­­eatment. The space-age procedure is called endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and it allows doctors to effectively remove intact tumors located along the interior of the digestive tract. NYM is the first hospital in Brooklyn to offer the procedure, which avoids open surgery while dramatically decreasing a patient’s odds of a cancer recurrence.