First-Robotic-Urologic-Surgery-on-a-Child-in-NYC-Performed-at-NY
Physicians in the Departments of Urology and Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center have become the first in New York City to perform robotic urologic surgery on a child.
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R. Peter Altman, Surgeon-in-Chief of Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs of the Children's Health System of NewYork-Presbyterian, has been elected the next President of the American Pediatric Surgical Association. He will take office at the Association's annual meeting in May 2002.
Dr-Jean-Pape-Receives-Frances-Legion-of-Honor-for-2-Decades-of
Dr. Jean W. Pape, an internationally recognized infectious disease expert and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, has received France's highest distinction, the Legion d'honneur, for his work of more than two decades, fighting disease in his native Haiti.
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Columbia University Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has received a $150,000 gift from the Avon Foundation to provide partial salary support over three years for an Avon Women's Health Scholar.
New-York-Brain-Tumor-Project-Launched-at-WCMC
In a major expansion of its neurosurgery program, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center has named Dr. Susan Pannullo as its first Director of Neuro-Oncology in the Department of Neurological Surgery.
New-Anti-Leukemia-Drug-Significantly-Improves-Survival-Even-for
Gleevec, the new anti-leukemia drug from Novartis Pharmaceuticals, achieves a marked improvement in survival even for patients in the accelerated phase of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), according to a study to be presented on Monday afternoon, Dec. 9, at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in Philadelphia.
Cornell-Graduate-School-of-Medical-Sciences-Holds-Intl-Plant-Bio
This intensive, hands-on field and laboratory course provided a unique and interdisciplinary curriculum that included aspects of field botany, evaluations of phytochemical diversity, and basic chemical-ecological assessments of biological activity.
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Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College, led by Dr. Carl Nathan, have now found that Mtb defends itself against oxidative stress by using a "bucket brigade" of proteins -- including two proteins that have been widely known as being involved in essential metabolism.
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