Asthma is No Match for a Great Game
Blog post written by Sonali Bose, MD MPH, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Division, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The show is not over yet. If you are like me and spent all summer long mesmerized by the...
Studying a New Treatment for Chronic Knee and Back Pain
“We are very excited about introducing AposTherapy to treat chronic knee and back pain,” says Joseph E. Herrera, DO, Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. Developed in Israel, AposTherapy uses specially designed biomechanical shoes to retrain the muscles...
Early Skin Cancer Screening Minimizes Complications
When Melinda Sacks joined hundreds of other attendees at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival, in Aspen, Colorado, to receive a complimentary skin cancer screening by dermatologists at the Mount Sinai Health System, the clinician told her she had a suspicious spot on her...
Mount Sinai Queens Heralds a New Era of Community Health Care with Opening of Ambulatory Pavilion
Against a backdrop of an evolving national health care system increasingly focused on preventive medicine, outpatient surgical procedures, and other efforts to keep people healthy and out of the hospital, Mount Sinai Queens has opened the doors to its new Ambulatory...
U.S. Surgeon General Visits Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Model Opioid Treatment Program Facility
The United States Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, recently visited Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Opioid Treatment Program at East 125th Street, one of the hospital’s 11 licensed addiction treatment clinics, to get a first-hand view of a facility...
The 411 on GMOs
Guest post by Jennifer Markowitz MS RD, a Clinical Dietitian in the Nutrition Department at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Genetically modified organisms are foods or animals produced via gene manipulation. The result of genetic modification is an organism that contains a...
Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)
Guest post co-written by Maria Padilla, MD, Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Divison at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Aditi Mathur, MD, Assistant Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Division at the...
Mount Sinai Opens a Comprehensive Center For Transgender Medicine and Surgery
The Mount Sinai Health System recently opened the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, one of the first centers of its kind in the United States to provide the transgender community with comprehensive primary, specialty, surgical, and behavioral health care...
Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder Newborn Intensive Care Unit Unveiled at Kravis Children’s Hospital
The newly constructed Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) opened on Monday, April 4, following a complete renovation and expansion that transformed the unit into a family-centered, therapeutic space equipped with the latest technology....