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Mount Sinai Team Models Brain Decision-Making in Psychiatric Disorders
Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, working in collaboration with a team from the University of Texas at El Paso, have developed a novel computational framework for understanding how a region of the brain known ...
Mount Sinai Develops AI Model to Improve Surgical Training
Mount Sinai researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of teaching surgical trainees a difficult procedure using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and an extended-reality headset without the presence of an instructor. All of ...
Mount Sinai’s Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH Envisions Human-AI Future at Aspen Ideas Festival 2025
Human–AI Collaboration: Putting Patients First
Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, Named President of the American College of Cardiology
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) approved new officers and trustees who will assume their roles in March 2026. The new president is Dr. Mehran, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), and Population Health Science and Policy at The ...
Playing-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Professional Musicians
Musicians’ medicine dates back to at least Bernardino Ramazzini’s book, “A Treatise on the Diseases of Tradesmen” (circa 1713), although physicians did not, in earnest, examine and treat musicians’ musculoskeletal conditions, such as musicians’ ...
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Sotagliflozin, a drug approved by the FDA to treat type 2 diabetes and kidney disease with additional cardiovascular risk factors, can significantly reduce heart attack and stroke among these patients.
Exploring the Link Between Microplastic Exposure and IBD
Microplastics are ubiquitous in our daily lives: in packing materials, clothing, personal care products, even tire dust on the streets. Thanks in large part to plastic containers and packaging for food and drink, ingestion is the main ...
New Celiac Disease Program Excels at Patient-Centered Care
At Mount Sinai's new Celiac Disease Program, patients can meet with a gastroenterologist, GI nutrition physician, health psychologist, and dietitian specializing in celiac disease. That integrated approach ensures patients’ clinical, dietary, ...
Monitoring IBD Through Wearable Devices Shows Great Promise in Several New Studies
A Mount Sinai team of gastroenterologists is exploring the use of wearable devices, such as the Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Oura Ring, in the realm of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), where unpredictable and frequent flares have made disease ...
With New Treatment Strategies, a Cure for Multiple Myeloma Is Now Possible
Long considered one of the most deadly and incurable cancers, multiple myeloma is now being viewed by more and more oncologists as an eminently treatable disease based on exciting new immunotherapies, including CAR T-cell therapy and bispecific antibodies.
Hand Surgery Video Earns Mount Sinai Orthopedist a Major Award
The video, created by Jaehon M. Kim, MD, FAOS, FAAOS, FACS, and his team, details an effective technique that leads to better outcomes for patients with scapholunate dissociation. It won first-place honors in the Top 10 Video Hand.e Video ...
Taking a Study of Addiction to the Movies
Can movies with drug themes trigger brain circuit responses in individuals with substance use disorder? A Mount Sinai study finds that not only do certain brain regions activate preferentially for these individuals, but those regions could ...
First-of-Its-Kind Center Aims to Get Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries Back to Life
The moment that Mount Sinai’s Angela Riccobono, PhD, met Nancy Lieberman, she knew there was something different about this patient. Ms. Lieberman’s determination to return to work and live life to the fullest after becoming quadriplegic ...
The Neural Hammock: Advancing Nerve-Sparing Robotic Prostatectomy at Mount Sinai
Discover the hidden complexity behind nerve-sparing prostate surgery. In this masterclass, Ash Tewari MBBS, MCh, FRCS (Hon.) introduces the concept of the neural hammock—a groundbreaking anatomical model that redefines how surgeons approach ...
Start Young, Stay Safe: The Case for Youth-Centered Workplace Safety Education
Every year, thousands of young workers step into the workforce with ambition and energy but without the knowledge to protect themselves.
Mount Sinai Study: Controlling Heart Rhythm Before m-TEER Improves Outcomes
Patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF) at the time of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) for severe mitral regurgitation are more than twice as likely to die or be rehospitalized for heart failure, compared ...
Explore how the neural hammock transforms nerve-sparing in robotic prostate surgery