An esteemed cardiologist and pioneering advocate for the benefits of information technology in medicine, Dr. Joseph G. Hayes has been named the recipient of the 27th annual Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center on a member of its professional staff.

The New York Community Trust announced today that it has made a grant of nearly $70 million from its DeWitt Wallace Fund to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry to improve the understanding and treatment of mental illness through basic and clinical research and training. It is the largest grant ever made from one of The Trust's 1,800 charitable funds and, when coupled with past contributions of $40 million from the Wallace Fund to the Medical Center, is one of the largest private gifts for psychiatric research and patient care in the United States.

Psychoanalytic therapies have been in professional use for over a century, but a new study from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the first to show that a classic psychoanalytic talk therapy is efficacious in treating panic disorder.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Westchester Division will participate in a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) clinical research study of anorexia nervosa, the serious and potentially lethal eating disorder that mostly afflicts teenage girls. The groundbreaking collaborative undertaking, which will also include the participation of five other leading medical research institutions, will begin accepting patients who wish to participate on May 1.

Minimally invasive catheter-based interventions are increasingly used to treat the estimated eight million Americans with severe blood-vessel blockages in their legs, a painful condition known as lower extremity arterial vascular disease. A new study shows the approach is safe and effective and may now be considered a first-line intervention for all patients—even those with the severe form of the disease associated with risk for amputation.

It's never too late to take precautions against skin cancer. The incidence of melanoma, a potentially fatal skin cancer, is increasing dramatically. It is currently the most common type of cancer in young women between the ages of 25 and 29.

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A small number of patients diagnosed with polyps in their large intestine have extensive or difficult-to-remove polyps, such as those that are flattened against the colon wall or in hard-to-reach places. As with all polyps that may develop into malignant cancers, they must be removed. Unlike regular polyps, extensive or difficult-to-reach polyps have, until now, necessitated open surgery with a lengthy recovery time. Now, an experimental procedure, laparoscopic surgery combined with carbon-dioxide assisted colonoscopy, allows most patients to return home in less than a day -- a potential advantage over traditional open surgery, which requires a three-to-seven-day hospital stay. The new procedure was developed and offered exclusively in the New York area by colon and rectal surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.