Becoming a Health Advocate for your Children
While the new concept of a Geriatric Emergency Department is garnering attention recently, Mount Sinai's Pediatric Emergency Department continues its tradition of innovation and excellence in caring for children during the most stressful of times. Recent investments...
Geri ED Turns 1
This Saturday, February 23rd, marks the 1-year anniversary of the Geriatrics Emergency Department at Mount Sinai. Recognizing that the US population is aging, and that existing emergency departments were too often designed around provider's needs - rather than that of...
New Device Helps Paralyzed Patients Walk Again
A wearable, battery-powered robot called the Ekso™, or exoskeleton, is helping paralyzed patients walk again at The Mount Sinai Hospital’s new Rehabilitation Bionics Program, the only program in New York State that uses this device. The Ekso, manufactured by Ekso...
Not your typical Emergency Room visit
Philip Abrams didn't want to go to the Emergency Department. He'd never felt this way before. What at first seemed like a simple headache just kept getting worse. Though he couldn't see his regular doctor, the covering doctor suspected sinusitis, and started an...
Eradicating Cervical Cancer
As an oncologist, I am often confronted with patients with advanced gynecologic malignancies with limited successful options to cure them. The success of treating and curing patients with cancer depends not only on the skills and technologies, it is very much...
Mount Sinai Surgeons Implant Portable Artificial Heart
When Daquain Jenkins, 29, left The Mount Sinai Hospital last year, he became the first patient in the New York metropolitan area to return home to await a heart transplant with the assistance of a portable artificial heart. The milestone was remarkable in a number of...
The Exercise Game!
If you like video games but need some exercise, try this “game.” You can win and get in shape. As you walk to and/or from work, pick up the pace because for each person you pass, you get one point. for each person who passes you, you lose one point. When a light stops...
Flu Myths vs. Facts
In my daily practice at Primary Care Associates, I get asked many questions about the flu and the flu vaccine. Despite improved access to accurate, responsible information in the media and on the web, a number of myths about the flu and the vaccine still exist. So...
The Flu Epidemic: What YOU can do
Influenza has officially reached epidemic proportions in several regions of the United States. Approximately 7.3% of deaths (exceeding the 7.2% threshold) are now attributed to pneumonia and the flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mount...