Hundreds Get Free Blood Pressure Check
Several hundred people received free blood pressure screenings at different locations throughout the Mount Sinai Health System in May, during National High Blood Pressure Education Month. Regular screenings are an important step in helping to control high blood...
LASIK Center Opens
The Laser Vision Correction Center at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai—the first refractive surgery center within the Mount Sinai Health System—recently celebrated its opening. Located at 230 Second Avenue, the new facility offers photorefractive...
A Social Media Guideline For Physicians: Should Joining Twitter Be a Professional Priority?
There are thousands of physicians, medical students and other health care professionals on Twitter, but many individuals are afraid to join Twitter because of the unknowns and potential pitfalls. Here are 5 reasons medical professionals are apprehensive about...
Mount Sinai Embraces a New Era in Digital Health Care
A new telehealth initiative run by the Mount Sinai Health System allows patients and their primary care physicians to hold “virtual” appointments or videoconferences for nonurgent follow-up visits. Designed to improve care and enhance convenience, the program can be...
Developing Apps to Improve the Health of Patients
The Sinai AppLab, a pioneering digital initiative between the departments of Medicine and Information Technology, is creating technology platforms to address the needs of patients, health care providers, and researchers within the Mount Sinai Health System. Under the...
Mount Sinai Health System Offers Free Skin Cancer Screenings
The Mount Sinai Health System invited staff, their friends and families, and the public, to learn about skin cancer prevention and receive a free, total-body skin examination during National Skin Cancer Awareness Month in May. The screenings took place in the...
Singing the Praises of Mount Sinai’s Voice Center
Helena-Joyce Wright enjoyed a successful career on Broadway, hitting the low notes as a powerful contralto/alto singer for more than three decades. But after undergoing a series of surgeries starting in 2011 to treat cancer, Ms. Wright, a longtime smoker, thought her...
Bridge Walk Raises Awareness and Funds
Nearly 200 Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency patients, friends, and family members donned red T-shirts and walked from Fort Lee, N.J., to Manhattan and back on Saturday, May 2, raising more than $25,000 to support research for the hereditary condition. The eighth annual...
Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Triathlete Get Back in the Race
A brain surgery while I’m awake? That sounds like a science fiction novel to most of us. However, it’s now a reality with DBS. What is Deep Brain Stimulation? Deep Brain Stimulation, or DBS, is a brain surgery designed to help improve the symptoms of Parkinson’s...