The Health Initiative for Law Enforcement Officers (HILEO) has been providing free and confidential educational sessions and a telephone hotline and referral service for police officers seeking mental health care.

More aggressive treatment of latent tuberculosis infections in non-U.S.-born residents in New York City could reduce the very high rate of the active disease in this population, according to an analysis of the disease during the last decade by researchers at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, the Public Health Research Institute, and the New York City Department of Health Tuberculosis Control Program.

The traditional "open" operation for colorectal cancer, done via a single lengthy incision, may lead to more cancer recurrences than operations carried out using minimally invasive methods, also known as laparoscopic methods, according to new molecular evidence from a clinical study by Columbia researchers.

More than 60-million Americans suffer from allergies and as many as 40 million suffer from airborne allergies. Yet despite their prevalence and the ever-increasing numbers of allergy sufferers, there is still widespread misunderstanding about allergies. Now, a new book by a leading Weill Cornell allergist clears the air about allergies and distinguishes the fact from the fiction.

Scientists have carried out a rigorous, carefully controlled study that shows that babies less than a week old can learn to distinguish between speech sounds by hearing them while they are asleep.

Investigators from Weill Medical College of Cornell University today reported encouraging interim results with a new potential therapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), which affects about 53,900 new patients each year in the United States.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital was the medical director of the upcoming film John Q. As the heart transplant consultant, Dr. Oz reviewed the script and oversaw the production of several scenes that involved surgery, ensuring that they were medically accurate. Dr. Oz, whose hands performed some of the scenes, also demonstrated cardiac surgery techniques to the actors and film crew.

Dr. Richard U. Levine, vice chairman for clinical affairs in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Sloane Hospital for Women at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Columbia University Medical Center, and clinical professor of obstetrics & gynecology at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons has been elected President of the New York Obstetrical Society.