Thyroid Cancer: It’s Not Simply a Pain in the Neck
Guest blog written by Deena Adimoolam, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland with two sides that sits in front of your windpipe and when it is functioning normally...
When Should You Get That Mole Checked Out?
Guest blog written by John Zade, current research fellow under Hooman Khorasani, MD, the Chief of the Division of Dermatologic & Cosmetic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
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...