Doctors discovered a pea lodged in a patient's left lung that had sprouted and grown fully half an inch before persistent coughing sent the 75-year-old man to Cape Cod Hospital. The patient, Massachusetts resident Ron Sveden, underwent 10 days of medical tests before the cause of his collapsed lung was pinpointed.
Following President William J. Clinton's recent visit to GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, President George W. Bush toured the city on August 10. Partners in the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, established to raise financial support for international aid efforts in post-earthquake Haiti, their visits bring fresh attention to the relief efforts, including extensive emergency aid coordinated by GHESKIO.
Ana C. Krieger, M.D., M.P.H., Co-Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Sleep Medicine and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, appeared on CBS HealthWatch to discuss the deeper health concerns associated with sleep apnea, a condition that affects 25 percent of men and 9 percent of women.
GHESKIO, an institution in Haiti founded nearly three decades ago to fight HIV/AIDS, has been awarded the prestigious 2010 Gates Award for Global Health for its years of groundbreaking clinical service, research, and training to effectively treat and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other related illnesses.
The newly constructed, expanded, and relocated Center for Sleep Medicine opened its doors on March 25, 2010. This innovative, state-of-the-art center is a joint endeavor of the Departments of Medicine and Neurology and Neuroscience and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. The cutting-edge facility consists of 8,000 square feet, including 12 hotel-quality sleep rooms with private bathrooms, cable TV, and WiFi.
WCCC is a Weill Cornell student initiative operating over the past several years to provide clinical care to patients who are under- or uninsured. WCCC operates out of the Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates practice on Monday evenings. It has been a robust student service-learning activity that is sponsored by a faculty steering committee, has worked with local social service programs, and has provided an important service to our local community.
On Friday, February 5, former United States President Bill Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti, visited GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to help begin the process of recovery and reconstruction, and to deliver relief supplies including water, food, solar flash lights, portable radios, generators, and approximately 1,900 lbs. of medical supplies.
The Cornell Center for Behavior Intervention Development is a joint program between Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University in Ithaca, Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx and Renaissance Health Systems in Manhattan. The center will carry out a research study called SCALE (Small Changes and Lasting Effects).
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded Weill Cornell Medical College a $2 million grant to fund an Edward R. Roybal Center for Research on Applied Gerontology, one of 12 such centers nationally. The grant will create the Cornell-Columbia Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life (TRIPLL), a collaboration focused on implementing innovative strategies for improving pain management among older adults.
African Americans constitute about 32 percent of all patients treated for kidney failure in the U.S. and are four times more likely to develop renal disease than whites, according to the National Institutes of Health's U.S. Renal Data System.
