http://www.nyp.org/nyp-hospitalnews.xml Hospital News Hospital News en http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/obesity-black-latino-new+yorkers.html A $6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has funded the creation of ORBIT: Obesity Related Behavioral Intervention Trials to focus on reducing obesity and obesity-related deaths in New York City's African-American and Latino communities. 2010-03-11 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/obesity-black-latino-new+yorkers.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/pediatric-cardiac-surgery.html A leader in advancing new surgical treatments for congenital heart defects, Dr. Emile Bacha has joined the pediatric cardiac surgery team at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. He has been appointed as director of congenital and pediatric cardiac surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. 2010-03-10 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/pediatric-cardiac-surgery.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/organ-donation-awareness.html NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the New York Giants are teaming up to increase awareness of the importance of organ donation, a cause close to the heart of several members of the Giants organization. NewYork-Presbyterian has just been named a proud sponsor of the Giants. 2010-03-01 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/organ-donation-awareness.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/tewari-prostate-robotic-surgery.html Robotic surgical technology with its three-dimensional, high-definition view gives surgeons the sensation of touch, even as they operate from a remote console. A new study describes the phenomenon, called intersensory integration, and reports that surgical outcomes for prostate cancer surgery using minimally invasive robotic technology compare favorably with traditional invasive surgery. 2010-03-01 00:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/tewari-prostate-robotic-surgery.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/prevent-fragility-fractures.html As many as half of all women and a quarter of men over the age of 50 can expect to sustain a fractured bone related to osteoporosis or low bone density. To enhance prevention and treatment of these fragility fractures, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center has implemented an innovative program called Own the Bone™ developed by the American Orthopaedic Association. 2010-02-25 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/prevent-fragility-fractures.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/rubino-diabetes-bmi.html Dr. Francesco Rubino, chief of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, is now enrolling overweight and mildly obese patients -- those with a body mass index (BMI) of 28 to 35 -- in a study of gastric bypass surgery aimed at reversing Type 2 diabetes. Because of their non-morbidly obese status, these patients do not qualify for the surgery under current guidelines. Today, gastric bypass, along with other bariatric procedures, can only be prescribed for patients with a BMI of 35 and over. 2010-02-24 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/rubino-diabetes-bmi.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/bariatric-surgery-milestone.html Few treatments are available to help obese adolescents who are unable to lose weight and are already suffering from obesity-related health problems. Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), an option for adults in the United States since 2001, is showing promise for teens. The Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery, which opened at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in 2006, recently performed its 100th LAGB procedure. 2010-02-11 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/bariatric-surgery-milestone.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/liver-donation-pediatrics.html NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is the only medical center in the United States to offer minimally invasive liver donation for pediatric transplantation. Surgeons use a laparoscopic technique to remove a section of liver from a living donor for implantation in a pediatric patient — typically a parent donating to their child. The innovative approach promises dramatically improved recovery for the donor. 2010-02-01 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/liver-donation-pediatrics.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/womens-health-alert.html The risk for heart-related death is increasing in young adults ages 35 to 54, and the numbers are even more alarming for younger women. It is the number-one cause of death for both men and women in the United States, yet every year since 1984 more women have died of cardiovascular health problems than men, according to the American Heart Association. 2010-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/womens-health-alert.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/valentine%27s-day-tips.html Love is in the air, but Valentine's Day shouldn't be the only time to express love for your partner; rather, it should serve as a reminder to devote time and energy to your relationship every day. 2010-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/valentine%27s-day-tips.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/schafer-physician-scientist.html Practicing clinicians have traditionally played a central role in research, advancing breakthrough treatments for innumerable diseases, from smallpox and cholera to heart disease and cancer. While their insights remain important as ever, recent years have seen the role of the physician-scientist become greatly diminished. Explaining the reasons for this shift as well as potential solutions is a new book called "The Vanishing Physician-Scientist?" (Cornell University Press) by Dr. Andrew I. Schafer, the E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. 2010-01-29 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/schafer-physician-scientist.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/smith-named-chair.html One of the nation's leading cardiac surgeons, Dr. Craig R. Smith has been appointed chairman of the Department of Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and surgeon-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and its Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center. Dr. Smith, the Calvin F. Barber Professor of Surgery, has served as interim chair of the department since 2007. 2010-01-28 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/smith-named-chair.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/pre-transplant-livers.html Preserving organs on ice prior to transplantation, an approach known as cold storage or CS, has been the standard practice in liver transplant for 20 years. Now there is new evidence that a technique called hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) may offer an improvement, according to the first-ever study comparing the impact of the two techniques on transplant outcomes. 2010-01-25 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/pre-transplant-livers.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/milstein-heart-center.html Ushering in a new era in comprehensive cardiac care, the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center celebrated its opening today at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Made possible by a $50 million gift from the Vivian and Seymour Milstein family — one of the largest philanthropic gifts in the Hospital's history — the state-of-the-art facility features advanced diagnostic technology and treatments that are frequently less invasive, more accurate, and require less healing time. 2010-01-20 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/milstein-heart-center.html http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/dopamine-agonist-withdrawal-syndrome.html New research has shown that reducing the dosage of dopamine agonist (DA) drugs, a mainstay treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD), sometimes causes acute withdrawal symptoms similar to those reported by cocaine addicts, including anxiety, panic attacks, depression, sweating, nausea, generalized pain, fatigue, dizziness and drug cravings. These symptoms can be severe, and are not alleviated by other PD medications. For the first time, researchers have defined this phenomenon, which they call dopamine agonist withdrawal syndrome, or DAWS. Led by a physician-scientist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, the study is reported in the Jan. 11 Archives of Neurology. 2010-01-11 12:00:00 http://www.nyp.org/news/hospital/dopamine-agonist-withdrawal-syndrome.html