The New York Community Trust announced today that it has made a grant of nearly $70 million from its DeWitt Wallace Fund to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry to improve the understanding and treatment of mental illness through basic and clinical research and training. It is the largest grant ever made from one of The Trust's 1,800 charitable funds and, when coupled with past contributions of $40 million from the Wallace Fund to the Medical Center, is one of the largest private gifts for psychiatric research and patient care in the United States.

The Leon Levy Foundation has awarded over $1.4 million in grants to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City in support of collaborative research into two little-understood neurological disorders: chemotherapy-related cognitive dysfunction in adult cancer patients and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH), also known as "water on the brain," a progressive neurologic disorder in older adults that may be present in as many as 5 percent of dementia cases.

Psychoanalytic therapies have been in professional use for over a century, but a new study from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the first to show that a classic psychoanalytic talk therapy is efficacious in treating panic disorder.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Westchester Division will participate in a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) clinical research study of anorexia nervosa, the serious and potentially lethal eating disorder that mostly afflicts teenage girls. The groundbreaking collaborative undertaking, which will also include the participation of five other leading medical research institutions, will begin accepting patients who wish to participate on May 1.

Decades of painstaking research has yielded the most in-depth look ever at the management of bowel stricture recurrence in patients who undergo surgery for Crohn's disease. The findings should provide much-needed guidance to surgeons and gastroenterologists battling this tough-to-manage intestinal disorder.

Minimally invasive catheter-based interventions are increasingly used to treat the estimated eight million Americans with severe blood-vessel blockages in their legs, a painful condition known as lower extremity arterial vascular disease. A new study shows the approach is safe and effective and may now be considered a first-line intervention for all patients—even those with the severe form of the disease associated with risk for amputation.

Though arterial vascular disease is widespread and often deadly among older American women, doctors too often fail to spot and treat it, according to a new report by a team of vascular surgeons from the Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College campuses of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

It's never too late to take precautions against skin cancer. The incidence of melanoma, a potentially fatal skin cancer, is increasing dramatically. It is currently the most common type of cancer in young women between the ages of 25 and 29.