Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Researcher Wins Presidential Early Career Award
Manish Arora, PhD, MPH, Vice Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed...
Mount Sinai Physicians Help Develop New Allergy Guidelines Urging Early Introduction of Peanuts
In a significant departure from past medical practice, new guidelines from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) call on parents to introduce peanut containing foods to infants as young as 4 to 6 months as a way to prevent potentially...
Mount Sinai study: How primary tumor cells are preset for dormancy and evade chemo after spread
The findings by Mount Sinai researchers were published in the January 31, 2017 issue of Nature Cell Biology and featured on the cover.
How Big Data Could Transform The Health Care Industry
In Huffington Post's new video series "Experimenters," data scientist Eric Schadt, PhD, founding director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, discusses his mission to revolutionize health care.
The Huffington Post: A Quick Guide to Getting Enough Vitamin D
If you are like many of my patients, you may be wondering, “Am I getting enough vitamin D?” Shanna R. Levine, MD, Instructor of General Internal Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital, explains why this is a valid concern.
A Leader in Imaging, With a Like-Minded Team, Scans Mummies Around the World for Clues to Heart Disease
At the intersection of medicine, archaeology, and the plot of an Indiana Jones movie lies a course of study pursued by Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, MACC. Dr. Narula’s highly eminent day jobs include serving as the Chief of Cardiology at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount...
An Effort to Improve Clinical Trial Enrollment
Clinical researchers in the Division of Nephrology and The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine are leading a new initiative within the Mount Sinai Health System to dramatically accelerate the prescreening process to identify eligible candidates...
Study Shows Motivation to Bully is Regulated by Brain Reward Circuits
A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has conducted a pioneering study of mice behavior and the structure of the brain demonstrating that in some cases, aggressive social interaction— bullying—activates a primary brain reward circuit...
New Report From Mount Sinai and the United Nations Outlines Ways to Improve U.S. Health Outcomes
The United States spends more money on health care than any other country, yet has poorer outcomes with shorter average life expectancies (78.8 years, per capita) than peer nations, such as Japan and Spain, with 83.4 years and 83.2 years, respectively. Furthermore, a...