The week of August 1-7 is recognized as World Breastfeeding Week. To mark this annual global event, New York Methodist Hospital will host World Breastfeeding Day. The event will feature free educational materials and giveaways, and an NYM certified lactation consultant will be available to answer questions. World Breastfeeding Day will take place on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Carrington Pavilion Lobby, 506 Sixth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn.

A year after the successful opening of NYM's renovated Center for Sleep Disorders and pulmonary faculty practice, the Hospital''s sleep experts have now added a pediatric insomnia program to the Center's lineup of services. The program is specifically geared toward treating insomnia—difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or waking up repeatedly throughout the night—in children whose sleeplessness is due to behavioral or psychological factors.

A procedure now offered by the Department of Surgery and Institute for Neurosciences at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) is giving new hope to patients with certain types of cerebral aneurysms—blister-like bulges in the wall of a blood vessel within the brain. NYM is one of only three hospitals in Brooklyn to offer the procedure, which incorporates the breakthrough “Pipeline” stent. NYM is also the only medical center in the borough where the procedure is performed by a physician who specializes in both neurosurgery and neurointervention.

New York Methodist Hospital will host Sickle Cell Awareness Day on Wednesday, September 24, 2014, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature free educational materials and giveaways, and NYM hematologists will be available to answer questions on sickle cell and thalassemia diseases. Sickle Cell Awareness Day will take place in the Hospital''s Carrington Atrium lobby, located at 506 Sixth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn. For more information call 718-780-5367.

On February 6, 2015, New York Methodist Hospital recognized Go Red for Women Day, a national campaign sponsored by the American Heart Association to raise awareness about women’s heart disease. NYM staff members and volunteers gave their time for the event, and provided more than one hundred attendees with free blood pressure screenings, information on heart healthy foods and consultations about how to manage heart medications.

Join Jessy Colah, M.D., chief of psychiatry at NYM, as he presents Beating the Blues. The seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Occidental Room of the Brooklyn College Student Center located on the fifth floor at East 27th Street and Campus Road.

April has marked a new beginning for emergency services at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM), and for all Brooklynites who may need life-saving care in the days, weeks, months, and years ahead. That is because NYM now receives trauma patients via New York City Emergency Medical Services.

The number of children who come to New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) for general surgery has increased by almost 50 percent in the last two years, with the Hospital now logging almost 500 cases annually.