New York, NY (September 23, 2004) -- Abnormally low blood sugar may raise an infant's risk for brain damage during delivery, according to a new study led by a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researcher. He believes early testing for neonatal hypoglycemia might potentially reduce neurologic morbidity."In full-term babies already at elevated risk for brain damage, low blood sugar increased that risk 18-fold," said Dr. Jeffrey M. Perlman, Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Chief of the Division of Newborn Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
Cornell Law School and the Thai Bar Association have forged a scholarship and exchange program honoring Cornell alumna, Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol. (March 6, 2007)
Biomedical engineering researchers have made antibodies that block only specific immune cells that cause inflammation, but not the ones the body normally uses to fight infections. (April 15, 2010)
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education annual Circle of Excellence Awards has given bronze medals to two Cornell websites and a silver medal for alumni relations programs. (June 21, 2011)
A new study shows how some agricultural management practices in the field that can boost or reduce the risk of contamination in produce from salmonella and listeria.
The wave-like behavior observed in electron cloud fluctuations challenges the widely held belief that van der Waals interactions, ubiquitous in the natural world, are particle-like in nature.
The Department of Textiles and Apparel in the College of Human Ecology will be the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, beginning next semester.
Just one month after the terrorist attacks in the United States, more than 70 national and state leaders and college and university presidents, staff and students from across New York gathered to celebrate the signing of the charter for the New York Campus Compact (NYCC) at Pace University in lower Manhattan, six blocks west of the World Trade Center site.
Starting in July, pioneering and award-winning HIV/AIDS researcher Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University will take over as editor in chief of the newly renamed monthly journal Translational…