NewYork-Presbyterian has launched Health Matters, a dynamic, new online platform created to share stories of science, care and wellness that are happening every day at one of the nation’s most comprehensive healthcare delivery networks. Health Matters will cover every area of medicine and offer insight from some of the country’s leading healthcare experts.

Dr. Santosh Murthy, an assistant professor of neurology and of neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine and a neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, presented on the risk and timing of arterial thromboembolic events such as stroke and heart attack, in which a clot obstructs blood flow to an artery, after a brain hemorrhage.

A new spiritual care communication board is helping patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) communicate their emotional and spiritual needs. The board, created by the Pastoral Care & Education Department at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, is now available to hospitals and healthcare systems across the country.

Scalp cooling can lessen some chemotherapy-induced hair loss – one of the most devastating hallmarks of cancer – in certain breast cancer patients, according to a new multicenter study from UC San Francisco, Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and three other medical centers.

NewYork-Presbyterian’s innovative telemedicine program, NYP OnDemand, was honored this week by the American Telemedicine Association with the President’s Award for the Transformation of Health Delivery at the ATA 2017: Telehealth 2.0 conference in Orlando, Florida.

NewYork-Presbyterian has established the William Rhodes and Louise Tilzer-Rhodes Center for Glioblastoma. Launched with an initial $5 million gift from William Rhodes, the new state-of-the-art program conducts groundbreaking research and provides cutting-edge treatments for glioblastoma and other deadly brain cancers.

A new weight loss procedure that reduces the size of the stomach without the need for surgery known as endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is safe and effective way for the treatment obesity and obesity-related comorbidities such as diabetes, high blood pressure and fatty liver, according to a new study by NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

A new article by a resident in the Department of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine looks at emergency department (ED) visits for patients who have sustained injuries during law enforcement interventions in the United States. Dr. Elinore Kaufman, along with co-authors from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, writes in JAMA Surgery that from 2006-2012, there were roughly 51,000 ED visits and hospital admissions per year for patients injured during law enforcement interventions.