Researchers at the Columbia University Fertility Center have developed a rapid and accurate one-step diagnostic test that detects SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in samples of saliva.

Today, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital celebrated the opening of the Center for Community Health. The Center for Community Health is a world-class ambulatory care center where leading specialists, working collaboratively under one roof, combine innovative clinical approaches and cutting-edge technology to provide exceptional, comprehensive care to the Brooklyn community.

Pulmonologists at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center are developing a new paradigm to confront idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other forms of progressive fibrotic ILDs.

Dr. Garcia’s research utilizes next generation sequencing and bioinformatic analyses to identify rare mutations in genes linked to inherited forms of lung disease.

A phase 2 clinical trial is underway at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian to test an investigational gene therapy for dry age-related macular degeneration—a progressive, chronic eye disease with no cure and a leading cause of blindness in the United States.

An international leader in pediatric cardiology, Dr. Christopher J. Petit has been named chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and chief of the pediatric cardiology service at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, effective March 1.

People who took statins to lower cholesterol were approximately 50% less likely to die if hospitalized for COVID-19, a study by physicians at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian has found.

Researchers Kenneth Wengler, PhD and Guillermo Horga, MD, PhD have found evidence of a potential neurobiological mechanism for hallucinations and delusions that fit within the hierarchical model of psychosis and can explain their clinical presentation.