A Full-Time Canine Companion Joins Mount Sinai
Two-year-old Aiden Schaefer was battling leukemia, with long hospital stays, uncomfortable medical procedures, and time spent away from his twin brother, Mason, when a gentle young service dog, Professor Bunsen Honeydew, began keeping him company as part of a new...
CNN: New Device Pioneered at Mount Sinai Helps Cancer Patients Minimize Hair Loss
Paula Klein, MD, Associate Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, whose research of the device led to FDA approval, explains why the new scalp cooling system is so important for patients. Watch the story on CNN
CBS Evening News: Daughter Gives Lifesaving Gift to Dad
With help from Mount Sinai's transplantation team, a young daughter was able to celebrate Father's Day with her father, a year after she donated a portion of her liver to her ailing father. Watch the story on the CBS Evening News
The Daily News: Woman Severely Injured in Traffic Accident Thanks Mount Sinai for ‘putting her back together’
Doctors thought Raquel White might never walk again after she was struck and dragged by a pick-up truck. Her pelvis was shattered, she suffered a broken leg and ruptured her bladder. David Forsh, MD, Chief of Orthopedic Trauma at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, said “her case...
Breakthrough Eczema Drug Based on Mount Sinai Research
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new biologic drug that is based on seminal research by Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, Professor of Dermatology, and Medicine (Clinical Immunology), at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The drug, dupilumab, was...
A Patient Story from the American Academy of Ophthalmology: Mount Sinai Saves the Eye Sight of a Woman Stabbed in Face
When 32-year-old Julissa Marquez sustained 27 stab wounds to the head, face, and eyes in December 2013, she was told by the trauma specialist who saw her that she would never see again. But thanks to doctors at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai,...
Kenneth’s Story: A Pioneering HIV-Positive Transplant Success
Kenneth Teasley, HIV-positive with end-stage renal disease, had been on a waiting list for a kidney transplant for five years. He learned from The Mount Sinai Hospital in the spring of 2016 about his eligibility for an organ from another HIV-positive patient. Mount...
Celebrating the Patients Cured of Hepatitis C
The Institute for Liver Medicine held a special party on Tuesday, March 7, on The Mount Sinai Hospital campus, for an extraordinary group of patients: men and women who have been cured of Hepatitis C. “It’s rare in medicine that we get to bring people back to...
Multiple Sclerosis Gala Honors Donors and Patients
More than 225 donors, patients, faculty, and friends attended the 15th Annual Gala for the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson (CGD) Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai, which was held Thursday, March 2, at The Plaza. The event was chaired by Meruka Hazari, MD, a...
