According to Dr. Lowe, there has been a three-fold increase in thyroid cancer over the past three decades, with more than 50,000 cases in the United States in 2018, mainly driven by the increased number of early-stage papillary thyroid cancers.

Heart problems in children hospitalized with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C)—an inflammatory condition triggered by COVID—were mostly gone within a few months, a new study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian has found.

Growth impairment, a common complication of Crohn’s disease in children, occurs more often in males than females, but the reasons are unclear. Now, a physician-scientist from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian and colleagues at eight other centers have found that factors associated with statural growth differ by sex.

At the Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery, surgeons are pioneering weight loss techniques and continue to refine minimally invasive approaches to advance the field.

Alessio Pigazzi, MD, PhD, one of the nation’s leading colorectal surgeons, has been named Chief of Colorectal Surgery in the Department of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

A study from researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine identified economic and social conditions impacting individual and group differences in health status, known as social determinants of health, in Brooklyn and top barriers to cancer care.

When Dr. Sallie Permar was a medical student at a mission hospital in rural Zambia in the late 1990s, she saw firsthand how the AIDS virus was ravaging the population.

The Dalio Center for Health Justice at NewYork-Presbyterian, which aims to understand and address the root causes of health inequities, today announced the members of its inaugural External Advisory Board.