Dear Organ Donor Families
Dear Organ Donor Families: In honor of National Donate Life Month, I would like to dedicate this blog post to you and your families. On behalf of our family and other recipient families like ours, I wanted to just say thank you to you and your very special family. We...
Enhancing Cardiovascular Care in South Florida
The Mount Sinai Hospital and Jupiter Medical Center, in Jupiter, Florida, recently announced a new partnership that promises to enhance the quality of cardiovascular care in South Florida and throughout the state with the creation of Mount Sinai Heart New York at...
Mount Sinai Queens Dedicates New Infusion Center
In a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by hospital leadership, staff, local elected officials, community members, and patients, Mount Sinai Queens officially opened its newly renovated Infusion Center on Friday, February 27, a long-anticipated event that brings cancer...
Promoting Colorectal Cancer Awareness
The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Endoscopy Center hosted a number of events on Wednesday, March 4, to commemorate Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Among the activities was the “Rollin’ Colon,” a walk-through, inflatable, educational model of a colon that magnifies the...
Kidney Coaches Join the Search for Living Donors
Patients waiting for a kidney transplant at the Mount Sinai Health System have a supportive new program to help them: the Kidney Coach program at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute’s (RMTI) Zweig Family Center for Living Donation. The program recruits...
Colon Cancer Prevention
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in the United States. Being that March is colorectal cancer awareness month, how can we lower our chance of colon and rectal cancer? Only 25% of colon cancer patients have a family history. For...
Breast Cancer In Young Women: New Research On Choices For Lowering Your Risk
Folate is a B vitamin required by the body for multiple normal functions. Along with other B vitamins such as B6 and B12, folate is important in sustaining our DNA. Eating a healthy diet that includes the right amount of folate may be an important factor in lowering...
Why Vaccinations are Critical to Children’s Health
As a young resident making pediatric hospital rounds in Houston more than thirty years ago, Michael F. Tosi, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, remembers the almost daily presence of sick children under age 5 battling Haemophilus...
The Power of Integrative Medicine
The Spencer Cox Center for Health, part of the Mount Sinai Health System’s Institute for Advanced Medicine (IAM)—the largest provider of HIV primary care in New York State—recently added yoga classes to its roster of complementary programs, and the patient response...