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...
New York Daily News: How an impromptu visit to a Mount Sinai gastroenterologist ended decades of distress
With a lot of pain and no appointment, Paul O’Neill walked into the office of James Marion, MD, at The Mount Sinai Hospital. The visit would change his life, as Dr. Marion, Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and...
20th Annual Luncheon for Cancer Survivors
About 200 cancer survivors, their families and friends, and Mount Sinai faculty and staff, recently attended the 20th annual luncheon celebrating National Cancer Survivors Day®. At the event, held on Sunday, June 11, in The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Annenberg West Lobby,...
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