Only one in five Medicaid enrollees diagnosed with hepatitis C virus started treatment, according to a retrospective study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University’s Ithaca campus.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have demonstrated how amyloid beta, a peptide associated with Alzheimer’s disease, can interact with a protein receptor on immune cells in the brain. This triggers a reaction that damages blood vessels and causes neurodegeneration.
While world public health agencies are focused on how to react to the next pandemic once it has started, a new plan proposes using ecological perspectives to prevent disease outbreaks before they happen.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has created a system in which Wall Street actors and insurance conglomerates have extracted large profits at the expense of Medicare, its patients and taxpayers – according to a new report co-authored by a Cornell professor.
Weill Cornell Medicine associate professor Gregory F. Sonnenberg has been awarded a five-year, $3.26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the underlying mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals had overcapacity intensive care units while other area hospitals had open ICU beds available, a phenomenon known as “load imbalance.”
The 14th episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features David Stein MBA ‘20, co-founder and CEO of Ash Wellness.
A preclinical study has shown that colorectal pre-cancerous lesions known as serrated polyps, and the aggressive tumors that develop from them, depend on the ramped-up production of cholesterol, which points to the possibility of using cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent or treat such tumors.
In experiments of unprecedented scale, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the NIH have advanced efforts to better understand and ultimately treat this common metabolic disease.
Weill Cornell Medicine is constructing a modern student residence that, when it opens in 2025, will nearly double the existing student residential living space.