Six students on the Cornell University Emergency Medical Service unit were recognized received national recognition for their proficiency in basic life support skills. (April 5, 2012)
NEW YORK -- At an international symposium June 25, Weill Cornell Medical College unveiled the latest star on its prostate cancer surgical team: a robot named da Vinci. The robot emulates the anatomic precision of its namesake to offer a new, minimally invasive and less compromising approach to prostatectomy, the removal of the prostate gland.
NEW YORK -- Just a year after groundbreaking ceremonies, the centerpiece of the Weill Cornell Medical College's (WCMC) multimillion-dollar capital campaign was recently "topped out." The Ambulatory Care and Medical Education Building at 1305 York Ave. at 70th Street will house 330,000 square feet of modern, patient-oriented facilities and amenities, including state-of-the art equipment, a comfortable welcome center and several specialty clinical practices for integrated patient care. The building is scheduled to open in the fall of 2006.
Joe Buttino, a Cornell employee for 56 years, retires June 30. He served in World War II, attended Cornell, studied under Vladimir Nabokov and has served Cornell presidents going back to Deane Malott. (June 30, 2009)
The yearly open enrollment period for benefits runs Nov. 10-26. The only significant change this year is in the vendor Cornell is using for behavioral health care coverage. (Nov. 7, 2008)
Editors' picks for the week of March 6 include a forum on water in the Mediterranean, a conference on transgender rhetoric, a celebrity chef visit and a performance by the iO String Quartet. (March 5, 2009)
In Ensemble X's April Fool's Day concert, all is not as it seems. Coded messages, double meanings, pandemonium and musical mishaps abound. The free is concert on Saturday, April 1, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall.
An electrocardiogram is an effective tool for detecting risk of congestive heart failure (CHF) in patients with hypertension, according to a new study by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.