April 9, 2024
April is National Minority Health Month. Weill Cornell Medicine can help you catch up if you’re behind on needed health screenings.
April 8, 2024
In this episode of Kids Health Cast, Dr. Sallie Permar gives an overview of the specialties and services for families within the Department of Pediatrics.
April 5, 2024
On Monday, April 8, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, moving from Mexico to parts of the U.S. and Canada. The “totality” will be visible in some parts of New York State between 3:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. People in the New York Metropolitan Area will be able to view a partial eclipse at around 3:25 p.m.
April 2, 2024
Do you wish you could live in the moment and handle stress better? Practicing mindfulness may be what you need.
April 1, 2024
In this episode of Back to Health, Dr. Daniel Barone discusses how seasonal changes can impact sleep.
March 29, 2024
After more than a decade of living with chronic pain and heavy periods, a patient finally gets relief from her endometriosis with the right treatment plan.
March 28, 2024
Public health experts have learned a great deal about COVID-19—a virus never seen before in human beings—since the coronavirus first appeared on our shores 4 years ago.
March 27, 2024
March Is National Nutrition Month. Take simple steps to improve your family’s eating habits.
March 26, 2024
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a fairly rare genetic condition that affects roughly half a million Americans. It has no cure, but at Weill Cornell Medicine, rare diseases matter just as much as common ones. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and its affiliated nonprofit, The Rogosin Institute, have been named a Center of Excellence by the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation.
March 25, 2024
About 18 years ago, when Kathy Stankus was in her mid-30s, she learned that she had a rare kidney disease caused by a genetic mutation. “It’s likely that my mother and grandmother had the same thing,” she says. Sadly, both of them died of renal failure.
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