The holidays may be the season of love and celebration, but there can be a fine line between festive and overwhelming. Crowded shopping centers, visits from out-of-town relatives, skyrocketing credit card bills, and the pressure of preparing holiday celebrations can all summon one overpowering reaction: stress

Two third-year students at Weill Cornell Medical College are among the 12 New York City medical students who have been awarded prestigious Macy Scholarships to support their studies for a Master's in Public Health degree at Columbia University's Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health.

A simple, low-cost ultrasound screening of men over 60 is not only reliably accurate in detecting abdominal aortic aneurysms but is cost-effective in increasing quality-adjusted life years.

The Division of Pediatric Oncology at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S) and the Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian have received a three-year, $3 million grant from the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCRF) of Irvine, Calif. to establish a state-of-the-art pediatric oncology research laboratory. The award will help Columbia pediatric cancer researchers facilitate investigations into a number of promising research areas—allowing them to probe the genetics, immunology, biochemistry, and cellular processes of childhood lymphomas and develop exciting new diagnostic tools, preventative measures, and treatment modalities for childhood cancers.

In the World Trade Center attack of last September 11, many thousands of children -- some have said as many as 15,000 -- suddenly lost at least one parent. Now, with the support of a Federal grant, Dr. Pfeffer, a nationally recognized authority on childhood bereavement, is leading a study to determine what kind of emotional and physiological effects this loss has had, and will have, on the children and their surviving parents.

Columbia University Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital today released the initial findings of a study to investigate the benefits of robotic open-heart surgery for correcting atrial septal defect (ASD).

An innovative and sophisticated computer simulation model can help public health officials and emergency planners to prepare a public health response in case of bioterrorist attack, a study by scientists in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College has demonstrated.

Ever since the German doctor Alois Alzheimer gave his name to the dementia suffered by many of the aging, nearly a century ago, it has been known that the brains of these patients show an accumulation of plaques. Now, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have produced important new evidence that the beta-amyloid peptide in these plaques may originate within the nerve cells, not outside, and that the observed extracellular plaques may actually be like "tombstones," or remnants, of the destructive intracellular beta-amyloid.