Patient Care Blog

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Your Annual Wellness Visit: What to Expect

February 1, 2023

Your annual preventive health exam (aka well visit or annual physical) is scheduled with your primary care physician to catch potential health issues early, before they become serious, and to help you focus on wellness and a healthy lifestyle while identifying important screening tests, vaccinations and other necessary testing.

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National Birth Defects Awareness Month: What You Can Do to Have A Healthy Baby

January 31, 2023

Birth defects are a common concern for expecting parents. Learn about the health risks infants face and what a mother can do to reduce the chance of her child developing a birth defect.

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Podcast: Bullying Prevention

January 30, 2023

In this episode of Back to Health, Hannah Simon, M.D. discusses what parents should know about preventing bullying in children.

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Screening Plus Vaccination: A Winning Combination that Protects Women from Cervical Cancer

January 26, 2023

The Pap smear, a routine part of a woman’s annual visit to her gynecologist for nearly 100 years, was developed at Cornell University Medical College by Dr. George Papanicolaou in 1928. The test has been used ever since to screen women for precancerous or cancerous changes to the cervix: the lower, narrow end of the uterus.

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Infographic: Thyroid Awareness Month

January 25, 2023

January Is Thyroid Awareness Month, which raises awareness to thyroid-related diseases and thyroid cancer.

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Congratulations to the Weill Cornell Medicine Physicians Chosen as the Best in the Country and the New York Metropolitan Area

January 24, 2023

This year, once again, Weill Cornell Medicine’s physicians are among the best in the country. So say their peers—250,000 leading doctors nationwide—who reported their picks to Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a New York City research and information company that publishes the annual guidebooks America’s Top Doctors and Top Doctors: New York Metro Area.