Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Inside, Your Health
The Mount Sinai Hospital became the first institution in the United States to use a U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration-approved drug-coated balloon to reopen arteries in a patient’s leg. The new device was approved last October to treat arteries above the knee that have been narrowed or blocked by peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a potentially life-threatening condition that may cause leg pain, skin ulcers, and gangrene, and can result in amputation if left untreated. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
A procedure developed at Mount Sinai Roosevelt’s CV Starr Hand Surgery Center has proven to be a highly successful, long-term treatment for chronic, degenerative arthritis of the wrist. The results of a 20-year study on the effectiveness of the procedure, distal scaphoid resection, were published as the lead article in the September 2014 issue of the Journal of Hand Surgery. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research
For the first time in its 47-year history, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America has awarded all three of its 2014 annual scientific achievement awards to research and academic luminaries at the Mount Sinai Health System. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
In the summer of 1998, Shavanne McCurchin noticed something odd about her 2-month-old son’s right eye. “The entire eye looked white,” she says, remembering that she thought she had accidentally sprinkled powder in his eye while changing his diaper.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
University of Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, the 2014 Heisman Trophy winner, recently visited patients at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai, where he hosted a live show from the hospital’s television studio in The Child Life Zone and fielded live calls from patients watching in their rooms. The event was sponsored by The Companions in Courage Foundation, whose founder, NHL Hall of Famer Pat LaFontaine, also attended. Mr. Mariota conducted a special Skype session in the Lion’s Den, an interactive playroom, where he spoke with pediatric patients in other hospitals.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, School
The Mount Sinai Health System’s residents and fellows were treated to an inaugural Appreciation Day on Monday, January 12, sponsored by the Office of Graduate Medical Education. More than 300 residents and fellows located throughout the Health System’s seven hospitals took short breaks from their busy schedules to socialize with one another and enjoy ice cream, cookies, and brownies in what is expected to become an annual event. The Mount Sinai Health System serves as one of the largest residency training programs in the United States.
The Mount Sinai Hospital became the first institution in the United States to use a U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration-approved drug-coated balloon to reopen arteries in a patient’s leg. The new device was approved last October to treat arteries above the knee that have been narrowed or blocked by peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a potentially life-threatening condition that may cause leg pain, skin ulcers, and gangrene, and can result in amputation if left untreated. (more…)
