Nearly one in five nursing home residents in 10 facilities across New York state were involved in at least one aggressive encounter with fellow residents during the four weeks prior to a study by researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell.
A $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Cornell will train agricultural researchers from sub-Saharan Africa in the theory and practice of gender-responsive research.
A new Weill Cornell Medical College study finds treating terminal late-stage cancer patients with chemotherapy does not improve quality of life and are of no benefit to overall survival.
A common pathogen that can lay dormant in healthy individuals becomes virulent in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, and Cornell biological engineers think they might know why.
A noninvasive scan that determines the extent of plaque buildup in the heart predicts the likelihood of heart attack or death over a 15-year period, according to a Weill Cornell Medical College research team.
Infants’ immune systems actually respond to infection with more speed and strength than adults' do, but the immunities fail to last, reports a new study published in the Journal of Immunology.
A Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and Cornell research project to better understand microbes in sand dunes won an award at the Annual Research Forum of the Qatar Foundation in Doha.
With the state’s dairy industry tearing through an economic boom, Cornell hosted the second New York State Yogurt and Dairy Summit Oct. 15, featuring Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, Agriculture and about 100 industry and government leaders.