Introducing Mount Sinai Future You, a New Television Series
A new television series called Mount Sinai Future You, which highlights innovation at Mount Sinai, is being broadcast on CUNY TV, the non-commercial educational-access cable channel run by The City University of New York. Mount Sinai Future You takes viewers behind...
‘Scarless’ Thyroid Surgery Wins a Patient’s Gratitude
Sarah Bird, a 27-year-old accounting supervisor, had a “very rough” month about a year ago. She went to Mount Sinai Union Square to check out a lump on her neck that she had first spotted in a photograph. During follow-up visits, an ultrasound scan and biopsy...
Two Mount Sinai Hospitals Work as One to Save a Life
When 24-year-old Andrea Giraldo arrived in New York City from Miami to ring in 2018 with friends in the East Village, she had no idea how gravely ill she would soon become. Her ordeal began with terrible leg pain, which sent Ms. Giraldo to a New York City hospital...
Staten Island Live: Singer Overcomes Surgery, Sings Again for the First Time on Easter Sunday
Church singer Ashley Welborn had lost her voice and was worried she might never sing again. But on Easter Sunday she was able to resume performing with the chorus at her church, thanks to Mark Courey, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Icahn...
Hoda Farghaly: My Colleagues in Queens Inspire Me
When I was eight years old, I witnessed my mom involved in a tragic accident. Time was of the essence, and she was rushed to Mount Sinai Queens, the nearest hospital. My sister—who was seven at the time—and I were terrified that we could lose our mother. As our family...
Patient’s Art Brightens Cancer Treatment Center
A 4’ x 6’ floral landscape painting hangs in the Derald H. Ruttenberg Treatment Center at Mount Sinai thanks to Veena Agarwal, a multimedia artist and patient of Sundar Jagannath, MD, Director, Multiple Myeloma Program, The Mount Sinai Hospital. Diagnosed with stage...
Hiker Reunites With Medical Students Who Came to His Aid
Miracles happen. Kindness matters. A touch of the hand can mean “everything.” Those were some of the messages that Matthew Fredricks delivered on Monday, November 27, when he was reunited with a group of students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who...
An Emergency Sight-Saving Surgery for a Patient Forced to Leave Puerto Rico
Carmen Rivera of Isabela, Puerto Rico, was seeing black dots in her left eye and having trouble focusing when she visited a doctor who diagnosed her with a retinal detachment and scheduled her for emergency surgery on Tuesday, September 19. As Hurricane Maria...
Toddler Receives the Gift of Sound
Ruth Tatuleka, a 2-year-old from Uganda, was recently given the gift of hearing, thanks to a team of physicians and staff at the Mount Sinai Health System. Ruth is from Kyabirwa, a village of 1,000 people, and has been deaf since birth. Her family knew that if she...