A Significant Milestone in Women’s Care: Mount Sinai Cuts the Ribbon for New Rowan Center
For too many women, health care has meant piecing it together alone: one specialist for hormones, another for heart health, a third for sleep, and no one connecting the dots. From pre-pregnancy planning and early reproductive health through postpartum recovery,...
HERstory: The Missing Chapter in Women’s Health
For generations, much of the foundational knowledge in modern medicine has been built on research conducted primarily on men. However, women’s bodies are profoundly different from men’s at the hormonal, cellular, and organ system levels. Because women have...
What Are the Benefits of the New Cholesterol Medicine and Could It Help Me?
Some people find that statins don’t lower their cholesterol level enough. Many of these people with unusually high cholesterol need regular shots of an additional drug to help get their cholesterol to a safe level. A new drug, Lipfendra® (enlicitide), approved in July...
Sam Horng, MD, PhD: Expanding the MS Center Purview
Sam Horng, MD, PhD, came to The Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis in 2015 on a three-year combined clinical and research fellowship after completing his neurology residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His work exemplifies...
From the Classroom to the Real World: Mount Sinai Welcomes New Residents
At 14 sites across the five boroughs of New York City, the Mount Sinai Health System welcomed 950 new residents in late June to its hospital campuses, in addition to Valley Hospital, Elmhurst Hospital, Queens Hospital Center, and the Bronx VA. “Our incoming class of...
A Dance Class Like No Other: Medical School Students Teach Ballet to Kids With Autism
If you peered through the window of Studio 5 at Ballet Academy East on the Upper East Side, and watched these ballet dancers moving under the watchful eyes of their young instructors, the class might seem like countless other classes in New York City. But this class...
Why a Master’s Degree? Six New Mount Sinai Graduates Reveal Their Experiences and How They Excelled
Six master’s program graduates from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences discuss how they are using their degrees to explore new paths in science, health care, and medicine. How Zirui (Frank) Feng Found a Way To...
Master’s Commencement: Celebrating Growth, Resilience, and Success of Mount Sinai’s 2026 Graduating Master’s Students
The Master’s Commencement ceremony at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SInai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences celebrated the outstanding accomplishments of the close to 200 students of the 2026 class who excelled across a wide range of scholarly efforts. A...
What to Know About the Cyclospora Stomach Illness Outbreak
You have probably heard about the Cyclospora outbreak, a stomach illness affecting a number of people in New York and across the country. Cyclospora is a parasite that can infect food and water, and the disease it causes is called cyclosporiasis. While the risk is...