Celebrating the Holidays in Harmony
Jon Batiste, the renowned jazz pianist, leader of the group Stay Human, and bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, recently performed at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine’s holiday concert. In the Mount Sinai Downtown-Union Square atrium,...
World Diabetes Day Health Fair
The Mount Sinai Hospital recently celebrated World Diabetes Day with a health fair in the Guggenheim Pavilion. A multidisciplinary team led by Camilla Levister, MS, ANP-C, CDE, from the Mount Sinai Diabetes Center, provided body-fat testing, type 2 diabetes risk...
Cirque du Soleil Enchants Pediatric Patients At Kravis Children’s Hospital
Performers from Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities brought their imaginative art form to life during a recent visit to the Child Life Zone at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. Pediatric patients and their families enjoyed a short performance...
Fifth Annual Dubin Breast Center Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon and Symposium
Is a mastectomy preferable to a lumpectomy? Can breast implants cause cancer? These were among the questions asked by attendees at the Fifth Annual Dubin Breast Center Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon and Symposium held in 2016, an informative event that sets the record...
New York Times ‘New Yorker of the Year’ Column Spotlights Mount Sinai Patient and Patient Advocate
After treatment for ovarian cancer, Valerie Goldfein created Woman to Woman, a program at The Mount Sinai Hospital to support other gynecologic cancer patients that has expanded nationwide.
Watch the Video: A Day With A Scientist
More than 40 middle school students from several East Harlem schools were exposed to science, medicine and healthcare at The Mount Sinai Hospital during an event called “Day-With-A-Scientist: The Brain.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9lOdvZ4Q0
MountSinaiNY App Widens Its Reach to Android Users
The Mount Sinai Health System recently launched an Android version of its mobile app for patients, MountSinaiNY. The app is a one-touch patient experience, featuring information and links that make it easier to access and use health services. “Research shows that when...
Celebrating New Site for Respiratory Institute
The Mount Sinai-National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute recently opened a newly renovated, state of-the-art practice on the Upper East Side. The location, at 10 East 102nd Street, features updated exam rooms, waiting areas and consultation offices, and suites...
Woman to Woman Builds a Community of Hope and Support for Cancer Patients
It was something of a family reunion when cancer survivors met on a recent Saturday at the 92nd Street Y—if a family can consist of 100 women from just about every generation and culture. What they had in common was Woman to Woman, a peer-to-peer program founded at...