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Dr. David Scales, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Co-Director of the Qualitative Methods Unit, presented at Medicine Grand Rounds on “Beyond Medical Misinformation: A Clinician’s Guide to Distorted Health Discourse.” His presentation reframed misinformation as part of a broader ecosystem of distorted health discourse, emphasizing that clinicians must understand the information environments in which patients live. He highlighted the...

Graduating medical students celebrate their residency matches March 20 during National Match Day.

The Weill Department of Medicine is thrilled to welcome 45 incoming residents this July. The Class of 2026 represents 31 different medical schools, including two international institutions, with six from Weill Cornell Medical College. Match results this year were revealed at 2 p.m. EST on Friday, March 20 to medical students nationwide. More than 48,000...

According to a new preclinical study co-led by Dr. Effie Apostolou in the division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, B cells—the immune cells that make antibodies to fight off bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances— transiently revert to a more flexible, or plastic, stem-cell-like state in the lymph nodes. The results could help explain how many lymphomas develop from mature B cells rather than from stem cells, as many other cancers do, and guide researchers in developing better...

Dr. Bishoy Faltas is among the inaugural recipients of the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) Grant for Innovative Bladder Cancer Research. The award is a $50,000 one-year grant meant to encourage the development of novel approaches to treat bladder cancer.

Dr. Faltas’s project is focused on CDADC1, a little-understood gene involved in the cellular machinery that helps maintain the nucleotide supply needed for DNA replication and repair. Because cancer cells...