Two prominent corporate citizens NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and IBM are teaming up to support the White Plains Little League baseball program that includes more than 1,000 local boys and girls as participants each year. The money will be used to help fund the construction of new restrooms and concession facilities at Gedney Park.

Potassium iodide (KI) pills should be available to everyone age 40 or younger -- especially children and pregnant and lactating women -- living near a nuclear power plant, according to a new report from a government-mandated expert panel of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cancer can be difficult to treat because it tricks the immune system into thinking it's not a threat. Researchers at the Columbia University Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital are participating in a study with a new vaccine that they hope will fool the immune system into fighting colorectal cancer.

Love it or hate it, emotional issues are prevalent in the workplace, says a new book by a Weill Cornell mental health expert. And many mental health problems from depression to drug abuse show up at work. Left untreated, these problems cost businesses billions of dollars every year in lost productivity.

In the current issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, Dr. Teresa Milner, Professor of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, presents new evidence supporting the importance of estrogen in brain function. In close collaboration with Drs. Keith Akama and Bruce McEwen at The Rockefeller University, Dr. Milner elucidates how estrogen is regulating the ability of the brain to learn and encode memories. The research suggests that some form of estrogen replacement therapy might counteract the effects of aging and delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

Pediatric pulmonologist Dr. Robert B. Mellins of Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University College of Physicians Surgeons has been honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) with the Edwin L. Kendig, Jr. Award for outstanding achievement in his field.

Mothers giving birth at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center and The Brooklyn Hospital Center both members of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System voluntarily donated a record number of life-saving umbilical cord bloods to New York Blood Center's National Cord Blood Program last year, representing 41 percent of the Program's one-year cord blood donations. The Program, the largest public cord blood bank in the world, provides half of all unrelated cord bloods for transplant. Patients worldwide have benefited from cord blood treatments for diseases such as late-stage leukemia, and scientists use cord blood to research promising new treatments. In effect, many mothers are now giving their gift of life twice.

A physician-ethicist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center calls for enhanced research into severe brain injury in a paper in the April issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience.