Mount Sinai and Stony Brook Form an Affiliation, Building on Strengths in Research and Education
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Stony Brook University School of Medicine have entered into an affiliation agreement that will build on a shared “culture of innovation” to enrich academic medicine programs and pursue breakthroughs in treating and...
An Innovative New System for Characterizing Cancer
A novel method for characterizing prostate cancer that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to help determine the best course of treatment for each patient is being rolled out this summer by the Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans Popper Department of...
Detecting and Tracking Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients With a History of Concussions
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are pioneering the use of a new imaging agent used with positron emission tomography (PET) to detect and track the progression of repetitive traumatic brain injury in patients with a history of concussions....
Manganese
On September 25-28 2016, the Division of Occupation and Environmental Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will host MANGANESE2016, an international conference on the neurotoxicity and prevention of adverse manganese health effects. Manganese is a...
Mount Sinai Surgeons Are First in New York State To Perform HIV-Positive Kidney Transplant
The Mount Sinai Hospital recently became the first hospital in New York State and the second in the nation to perform a kidney transplant from an HIV-positive deceased donor to an HIV-positive recipient, the result of federal legislation that went into effect late...
Unique Public-Private Collaboration with Celgene To Accelerate Important Cancer Discoveries
The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and three other leading U.S. academic institutions recently established a pioneering research consortium to accelerate the discovery of new treatments for cancer. In addition, Celgene Corp., a...
Researchers Identify Genes That Predict Damage in Donated Kidneys
Kidney transplantation is the most common type of organ transplant surgery in the United States with over 17,000 kidney transplantations performed in 2014, according to the National Kidney Foundation. However, long-term survival still remains a challenge. While there...
A Paradigm Shift in Health Care Delivery
Medical Treatment at Home An innovative program being run by the Mount Sinai Health System has shown that certain acute-care patients who choose to be treated at home rather than in a hospital are not only more satisfied with their care but also have lower medical...
Mount Sinai Vascular Surgeons Among First in Nation To Treat Complex Aortic Aneurysm With New Device
Physicians at The Mount Sinai Hospital were among the first in the nation to implant an investigational device, a fabric and metal mesh tube known as a stent graft, as part of a clinical trial to treat aneurysms located in the thoracic/abdominal area of the aorta....