New faculty who joined VP&S in April and June include an emergency medicine doctor and a radiologist who has helped translate state-of-the-art imaging techniques.
New faculty who joined VP&S in February and March include the chair of the Department of Radiology and the vice chair for basic research in the Department of Pediatrics.
When doctors at a local community hospital were unable to diagnose a three-month-old baby’s illness, she was transferred to the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center (MSCHONY), where she was quickly diagnosed with botulism and successfully treated.
New findings show that the more heart attack-induced PTSD symptoms a patient has, the worse their sleep likely was in the month following their heart attack.
A study of children born with severe heart defects has found that at least 10 percent of cases stem from genetic mutations that occur spontaneously early in development.
Columbia Magazine reports on an NIH-funded study, led by Dr. Ronald Wapner, where thousands of women were provided microarray, a powerful genetic test, for prenatal testing.
A thumb-sized hearing aid worn behind the ear and held in place by a small magnet is available at NY-Presbyterian/Columbia to those who cannot wear conventional hearing aids.