Dr. Hao Wu will receive a Rita Allen Foundation Award of $50,000 a year for the next three years. The prestigious award, which is given to only four outstanding young scientists each year, will help support her research in "apoptotic and inflammatory signaling," or the mechanisms by which cells die or become inflamed.

In a new book, Tell Me Where It Hurts: How to Decipher Your Child's Emotional Aches and Physical Pains, Dr. Jonathan A. Slater, associate professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and chief of the consultation-liaison service at Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, teaches parents how to read their child's physical symptoms and evaluate them from an emotional and medical standpoint.

Researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found, for the first time, that certain proteins maintain the nervous system architecture after the developing body lays down the wiring pattern. The finding may someday lead to a better understanding of some neurological diseases but, for now, is changing neuroscientists' fundamental understanding of nervous system anatomy.

A widely available dietary supplement, coenzyme Q10, has shown promising results in a clinical trial involving 80 patients with early Parkinson's disease, according to a recent article in the Archives of Neurology.

In two separate papers, just published online in Nature Medicine, researchers show that activation of VEGFR-1 results in the mobilization and incorporation of pro-inflammatory stem and blood cells into various organs, contributing to inflammation and abnormal vessel formation. This leads to the evolution of cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis, as well as to arthritic joint diseases, blood disorders, and cancer progression.

A new study by doctors at the NewYork- Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center shows that the Center's unique diagnostic technology of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is the equal of the traditional technique of x-ray angiography in helping physicians plan treatment for patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD).

In a study at the Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Dr. Meridith Sonnett showed that children and older teenagers presenting to the Hospital's emergency department (ED) with psychiatric emergencies differed in types of illnesses and the need for care between age groups.

With the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy upon us, New Yorkers are thinking back on the devastation caused by one of the greatest natural disasters to ever strike the city. The storm caused thousands to evacuate their homes, and many more were left without power for weeks.