How to Manage Your Child’s Pain Post-Tonsillectomy
Aldo Londino, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Mount Sinai Health System and is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital. He specializes in the treatment of children with complex...
Metro New York’s Ask Mount Sinai: You Don’t Have to Have Polycystic Ovaries to Have PCOS
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common causes of infertility in women. It can not be cured, but the symptoms can be managed, according to Charles J. Ascher-Walsh, MD, director of the Gynecology and Urogynecology Division at the Department of...
New York Daily News: Access to Liver Transplants is Worse for New Yorkers
The harsh reality is that, wherever you live, there are not enough organs to accommodate those in need. Nationally, about 8% of patients die while waiting for a liver; in New York, that rate is nearly double, according to Sander S. Florman, MD, Director of the...
HuffPost: Colon Cancer is Preventable, Treatable, Beatable
Each year, more than 50,000 Americans die from colon cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. David A. Greenwald, MD, Director of Clinical Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, The Mount Sinai Hospital, explains why the vast majority of these...
Medication and Surgery: What to Take and What Not to Take
Medications can have an impact on the anesthesia that will be used for your surgery and even on your recovery, says Ram Roth, MD, board certified anesthesiologist at Mount Sinai Queens. That is why it is very important to talk with your surgeon...
Your Orthopedic Surgeon Recommends Surgery: What Next?
Pre-surgery efforts can influence the success of the surgery and recovery, says Edward Yang, MD, board certified orthopedic surgeon and Chief of Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai Queens. When orthopedic surgery is part of your care plan, there are many steps you can take to...
Huffington Post: New Advice for Preventing Peanut Allergy in Young Children
Scott H. Sicherer, MD, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology and Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics at The Mount Sinai Hospital, served on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
With New Device, Orthopedic Surgeons Can Decide During Your Office Visit if You Need Surgery
A new tool is giving orthopedic surgeons an innovative view inside the body. “It's an instrument that has a digital camera at the tip of it so that once you put it in the joint you can look around,” says James N. Gladstone, MD, Co-Chief, Sports Medicine Services,...
Metro New York’s Ask Mount Sinai: How do you know if you have kidney cancer?
Some cancers are largely discovered "incidentally," or when a person is seeking treatment for an unrelated reason; kidney cancer is one of those. Ketan Badani, MD, Professor, Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, explains the risk of kidney cancer and some...