Raising Awareness about Sickle Cell Disease
The Mount Sinai Health System observed Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Awareness Month by hosting “Community Engagement Day: Mount Sinai Cares About Sickle Cell Disease” on Saturday, September 12, on The Mount Sinai Hospital campus. Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood...
Free Thyroid Cancer Screenings at The Mount Sinai Hospital
More than 168 Mount Sinai Health System staff and visitors received free thyroid cancer screenings in September at an event sponsored by The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery during Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month. Physicians and...
Mount Sinai Researchers Identify Drug with Potential to Drive Beta Cell Proliferation
In a screen of more than 100,000 potential drugs, only one, harmine, drove human insulin-producing beta cells to multiply, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, published in Nature Medicine. Diabetes results from too...
Mount Sinai Researchers Make Diabetes Discoveries
Andrew Stewart, MD, the Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine and Director of Mount Sinai’s Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute led a team of scientists who discovered a novel mechanism that regulates the replication of insulin-producing beta...
A Fourteen-Year Legacy of Treatment for 9/11 Responders
In the 14 years since the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC), the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has diagnosed and treated more than 20,000 first responders and survivors for 9/11-related physical and psychological issues. Area workers, residents,...
Recollections and Health Issues of the Workers at Ground Zero
Daisy Bonilla School Safety Agent, New York Police Department Age: 47 Involvement in 9/11 response efforts: Patrolling and securing the disaster area Current employment status: In the process of retiring “On the second day, everyone at NYPD school safety started doing...
Mount Sinai Launches New Kidney Center and Home Dialysis Program
The Mount Sinai Health System Division of Nephrology recently opened the Mount Sinai Kidney Center at East River Plaza, located at East 117th Street in East Harlem. (See photo). The 18,000-square-foot facility—which replaces The Mount Sinai Hospital’s dialysis clinic...
Free Eye Screenings for Brooklyn Seniors
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai’s “Eye on Senior Health” program is offering free eye examinations for Brooklyn seniors at the United Senior Citizens Center of Sunset Park. Funded by a grant from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc., the program’s goal...
“Story Time” for Pediatric Patients
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai recently launched a “Story Time” program for pediatric patients, an initiative designed to ease their anxiety in the hospital waiting room and to acquaint them with best-selling books that also happen to have a...