As more states legalize cannabis for medical or recreational purposes, its use during pregnancy is increasing – along with the potential forabuse or dependence.
Treatment with the amino acid arginine enhanced the effectiveness of radiation therapy in cancer patients with brain metastases in a clinical trial from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Angel H. Roffo Cancer Institute.
A new study suggests that greater cumulative exposure to estrogen in life may counter the decline in brain-matter volume that occurs with menopause, in key brain regions affected in Alzheimer's disease.
Katherine H. Saunders MD ’11, an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, specializes in the care of patients with obesity and weight-related medical complications.
The grant will fund an effort to study how abnormal protein aggregates may spread from the gut to the brain to drive the early stages of Parkinson’s disease.
Partnering with traditional healers improves uptake of HIV tests in rural Uganda, according to a trial by Weill Cornell Medicine and Mbarara University of Science and Technology investigators.
Two renowned biologists, May Berenbaum, Ph.D. ’80, and Ellen Rothenberg, have been appointed to six-year terms as Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large.
Researchers found that they could use an existing experimental drug to slow metabolism of certain aggressive B-cell lymphomas in lab-dish and animal studies.
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine sampled gut bacteria from healthy fecal microbiota transplantation donors and from recipients with ulcerative colitis, identifying the bacterial strains that correlates with effective treatment.
