Chill with impunity through this winter’s extreme cold – and brace for the next summer heat wave, when fiery temperatures and air pollution conspire to fill hospitals and morgues.
The ILR School, Weill Cornell Medical College and several domestic and international organizations will confer on health care reform in New York City May 11-12. (April 5, 2010)
Cornell’s Translational Research Institute for Pain in Later Life has received a five-year, $1.95 million renewal grant from the National Institute on Aging.
The organization, which offers students the opportunity to participate in intercollegiate speech and debate competitions, is moving from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. (Nov. 18, 2009)
Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have discovered the precise molecular steps that enable immune cells implicated in certain forms of asthma and allergy to develop and survive in the body.
Cornell biochemist Shu-Bing Qian of the Division of Nutrition Sciences has received a $400,000 grant over four years to study how diet impacts the aging process at the molecular level. (June 25, 2009)
The authors of “Retirement and the Hidden Epidemic: The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement and Substance Misuse – and What To Do About It” presented their findings in New York City Oct. 20.