Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Physical Fitness in Late Adolescence May Reduce The Risk of Developing Adult-Onset Diabetes
Physical fitness in late adolescence may reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life, according to a new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that appeared online in the March 8, 2016, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine....
21st Annual Medical Student Research Day
Five Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai students were chosen to give oral presentations of their basic and clinical research projects at Mount Sinai’s 21st Annual Medical Student Research Day, on Thursday, March 10, in Stern Auditorium. Mitra Heshmati, PhD,...
Malnutrition
Guest post by Alysia Johansson MS RD CDN, Clinical Nutrition Coordinator at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Alysia has been at Mount Sinai since 2011 where she works as part of the interdisciplinary Cardiothoracic ICU team. Alysia also coordinates malnutrition efforts for...
Attacking Two Targets in Multiple Myeloma
Research into a novel treatment that could help extend the lives of patients with multiple myeloma—a disease in which cancerous blood cells proliferate in the bone marrow—is being advanced by scientists at The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at...
A New Data-Sharing Platform Developed at Mount Sinai Promises to Advance Digital Health Care
A new knowledge and data-sharing platform created by researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System is designed to help physicians weed through the thousands of mobile health apps that enter the market each year and identify the ones that successfully improve patient...
New Technology That Serves as an Artificial Pancreas Is Revolutionizing the Management of Type 1 Diabetes
Research under way at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is revolutionizing the management of type 1 diabetes by using novel technology that serves as an artificial pancreas and automatically enables patients to achieve more stable glucose levels 24 hours a...
Breaking New Ground in Multiple Sclerosis Research
Researchers at Mount Sinai’s Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis played a key role in developing a potential breakthrough treatment for progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), according to findings that were presented in October 2015 at the meeting...
Big Data Tools Help Decipher Disease Progression
Two new Big Data analysis tools that help pinpoint specific genes that are actively involved in disease progression were recently made available to the public by scientists in the Multiscale Network Modeling Laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai....
Genetic Testing Under Way in Connecticut
In its first full year of operation, the Mount Sinai Genetic Testing Laboratory in Branford, Connecticut, has become an integral part of the Mount Sinai Health System’s efforts to better diagnose and treat disease. The 16,400-square-foot facility, located 85 miles...