As new variants of COVID-19 emerge, COVID-19 vaccines are updated to remain effective. This year’s formulations were approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with narrower eligibility, and an advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and...
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“I Am a Mount Sinai Nurse”
What is a Mount Sinai nurse? A Mount Sinai nurse is so many things: a team player, dedicated caregiver, critical thinker, continuous learner, mentor, patient advocate. And so much more. At Mount Sinai, we believe that a Mount Sinai nurse is the nurse all other nurses...
Of Integrity, Persistence, Leadership, and Responsibility: Mount Sinai Graduate Students Start Their Science Training
Alec C. Kimmelman, MD, PhD, stepped to the podium as the keynote speaker at Mount Sinai’s Lab Coat Ceremony, the celebratory start of academic research and training for the newest PhD and MD-PhD students. He recalled how he had felt a few decades earlier when he was a...
A New Era in Rehabilitation at Mount Sinai: Advanced Center Opens at Mount Sinai Morningside
Mount Sinai Health System has opened the newly relocated Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center at Mount Sinai Morningside, marking a major milestone in rehabilitation medicine. The move expands inpatient rehabilitation capacity on Manhattan’s West Side—complementing Mount...
How Mount Sinai Queens Saved a Colleague’s Life
It started like any other day—until it wasn’t. On the morning of Thursday, February 20, Frank Parlatore, Jr., a member of the Environmental Services team at Mount Sinai Queens, was preparing for his shift when he collapsed in the operating room locker room. Frank had...
How a Passion for Pharmacology and Addressing Substance Use Disorders Brought an Aspiring Researcher to Mount Sinai
Ally Parpounas, MS, is a second-year student in the MD program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She previously completed the Master of Science in Biomedical Science (MSBS) at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. It was her decision to attend the...
Stories Behind the Science: Preparing to Fight the Next Epidemic
Antivirals saved many lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Mount Sinai researchers are involved in discovering new treatments as part a preparedness initiative spearheaded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. However, recent developments led to funding being disrupted, and uncertainty hangs over work that are halfway to being completed.
Advancing Our Understanding of MS: One Researcher’s Quest to Uncover Hidden Brain Changes
How can clinicians better predict who will transition from relapsing to progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS)? And can we use imaging techniques to diagnose MS more accurately and to select the right treatments for individual patients? “These are questions people with...
Why Are Vaccines Important?
Vaccines strengthen your body’s natural defenses. They are the safest and most effective way to protect yourself and your family from many preventable diseases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Vaccines are one of the few ways we...
