Supporting Environmental Health in Southeast Asia
Rapid industrialization in Southeast Asia is producing widespread environmental pollution, creating unsafe workplaces, and raising grave concerns for public health. To address these challenges, and strengthen the capacity of health professionals and policymakers in...
Cancer Clinical Trials Video Now Online
Today’s standard therapies for cancer exist because people have participated in clinical trials – yet choosing to participate in a cancer clinical trial is an important personal decision that can be intimidating for many patients. In order to better help patients...
Promoting Tennis Health & Wellness at the US Open
As an orthopaedic surgeon for the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and appointed as the Chief Medical Officer for the USTA and the Medical Advisor to the U.S. Fed Cup team, I am honored to be a part of this venture as Mount Sinai is named the first-ever official medical...
The Importance of Good Posture
Good posture is a goal for everything from sitting at your desk to walking down the street. What is good posture? Posture, for this case describes the position of the spine, but it also has other body parts acting on it. Background: The spine is divided into three...
Happy “Birth Day,” Baby!
A maternity stay at The Mount Sinai Medical Center became a little sweeter in June when staff from the Department of Nursing, Women & Children’s Services began giving new parents pink or blue birthday cakes to celebrate the arrival of their newborns. On an average...
Introducing the Low FODMAP Diet
The low FODMAP diet may sound like yet another gimmicky weight loss plan to many of you, but it’s actually a science-backed regimen aimed at alleviating symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Developed by Australian researchers, the efficacy of the low FODMAP...
A Great Opportunity to Study and Treat a Potentially Devastating Illness
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is the single most common reason for regulatory actions concerning drugs, including failure to gain approval for marketing, removal from the market place and restriction of prescribing indications. DILI is also a significant cause of...
Mount Sinai Participates in the Aspen Ideas Festival
Significant advances in science are taking place, but translating them into clinical treatments for an array of human diseases is being hampered by public policies that are not aligned with the public good. That observation was articulated by Kenneth L. Davis, MD,...
Mount Sinai Heart Hosts Live Symposium of Complex Cases
More than 1,100 interventional cardiac and vascular specialists participated in Mount Sinai Heart’s 16th Annual 2013 Live Symposium of Complex Coronary, Valvular, and Vascular Cases held from Tuesday, June 11, to Friday, June 14. It was the largest number of attendees...