23 hours ago — MSNBC.com Meningitis warning given ahead of NYC's Gay Pride weekend
People traveling to New York City for Gay Pride events over the June 28-30 weekend are being told to seek advice about vaccination for invasive meningococcal disease, in a report released Monday...

5 days ago — KAIT 8 Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College, Joins New York Blood Center Board of Trustees
NEW YORK, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --New York Blood Center (NYBC) announced today that Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College, has been elected to the Board o...

10 Jun 2013 — CBS News Video: Weight loss drug is "not for the last 10 pounds"
A new weight loss drug, Belviq, could be promising for some patients. Dr. Louis Aronne, of New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, explains that this medication is only for people wh...

08 Jun 2013 — Connecticut Post Sacred Heart grads urged to take risks
Sacred Heart grads urged to take risks In encouraging graduates to take risks, Linda Vahdat said she does not mean bungee jumping, skydiving or speeding in a car, but instead taking calculat...

05 Jun 2013 — The Queens Courier FDNY: Rapid Repairs not behind Howard Beach house blast
A gas explosion that destroyed a Howard Beach house last week was not caused by fixes from the citys post-Sandy repair service, an FDNY spokesperson said. The May 29 blast sent resident Theresa ...

22 May 2013 — Bernardsville News Bruce E. Pereyra, 73, former Gladstone resident
Bruce E. Pereyra, 73, of Tewksbury, formerly of Gladstone, a loving husband, father and brother, passed away on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, after battling ...

18 May 2013 — Medical News Today Researchers Discover Master Regulator That Drives Majority Of Lymphoma
New Findings Show Inhibiting Powerful Protein with New Agents May Supply Broad Benefit for Lymphoma Patients A soon-to-be-tested class of drug inhibitors were predicted to help a limited number ...

06 May 2013 — Australian News Why there are more walk-away moms
>Editor's note: Peggy Drexler is the author of "Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family" and "Raising Boys Without Men. " She is an assistant professor of ps...

06 May 2013 — CBS New York Ballet Master Frederic Franklin Dies At 98
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - The arts world this weekend was mourning Frederic Franklin, a British-born dancer who helped popularize the modern ballet in the United States and performed until he w...

26 Apr 2013 — The Times & Courier The Readers Writers: Parent educator Elaine Heffner
Elaine Heffner, LCSW, Ed.D, has written for Redbook, Parents Magazine, and Disney online,as well as others. She also authored "Mothering; The Emotional Experience of Motherhood afterFreud and Fe...

24 Apr 2013 — Medical News Today Sofosbuvir Offers High Cure Rate For Two Hepatitis C Subtypes
Sofosbuvir, a new drug, is offering impressive cure rates for Hepatitis C patients with two subtypes of the disease - genotypes 2 and 3, according to researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical Col...

17 Apr 2013 — The Oakland Post Just a minor little thing: Alum declared a medical miracle
The doctors said he had 24 hours to live. That was five years ago. George Maalouf, who graduated from Oakland University in 1995, was diagnosed with Glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain c...

10 Apr 2013 — The Brown Daily Herald Panel refutes link between mental illness and gun violence
While an improvement in the United States mental health care system would be "amazing, we should be frank about what (reductions in violence) were going to see," said Richard Friedman, Cornell ...

27 Mar 2013 — Terra Daily Patents said threat to 'genomic liberty'
New York (UPI) Mar 26, 2013 Companies holding more than 40,000 patents on DNA molecules have essentially staked claim to the entire human genome for profit, U.S. researchers say. Medical ...

22 Mar 2013 — CBS News Video: Spring pollen allergies may be worst ever
Dr. William Reisacher, director of the allergy center at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, speaks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about this spring's predicted high pollen c...