Einstein's Class of 2019 Celebrates Match Day
March 15, 2019—(BRONX, NY)—Fourth-year medical students ofAlbert Einstein College of Medicine, a part ofMontefiore, learned today where they will start the next phase of medical education as resident physicians at hospitals around the nation. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - March 15, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Some Children Can & ldquo;Recover & rdquo; From Autism, but Problems Often Remain
March 12, 2019—(BRONX, NY)—Research in the past several years has shown that children can outgrow a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), once considered a lifelong condition. In a new study, researchers atAlbert Einstein College of Medicine andMontefiore Health System have found that the vast majority of such children still have difficulties that require therapeutic and educational support. The study was published online today in the Journal of Child Neurology. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - March 12, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Some Children Can “Recover” From Autism, but Problems Often Remain
March 12, 2019—(BRONX, NY)—Research in the past several years has shown that children can outgrow a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), once considered a lifelong condition. In a new study, researchers atAlbert Einstein College of Medicine andMontefiore Health System have found that the vast majority of such children still have difficulties that require therapeutic and educational support. The study was published online today in the Journal of Child Neurology. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - March 12, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Achieves Independent Degree-Granting Authority
March 4, 2019—(BRONX, NY)—More than six decades after it first opened its doors,Albert Einstein College of Medicine is now an independent academic institution, with the authority to confer its own medical and graduate degrees. This achievement had been set in motion more than three years ago, when Yeshiva University entered into a strategic joint collaboration with longtime Einstein affiliate, Montefiore. Einstein’s academic independence is the result of a vote by the Board of Regents of New York State’s Department of Education, which awarded Einstein an absolute charter, establishing it as an auton...
Source: Einstein News - March 4, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Einstein Adds Curriculum on Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
BRONX, NY—(February 28, 2019)—Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have long benefited from the training pediatricians receive to treat autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, or other disorders. Their doctors often connect these young patients with many professionals—from physical, occupational, and speech therapists to psychologists, social workers, and special-care dentists. But as children grow up, they soon discover there are far fewer physicians aware of their unique needs. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - February 28, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Diet Drink Consumption Linked to Higher Stroke, Coronary Heart Disease, and Death Risk in Post-Menopausal Women
February 20, 2019—(BRONX, N.Y.)—A study led byAlbert Einstein College of Medicine researchers found a link between daily consumption of multiple diet drinks and higher stroke risk among post-menopausal women. The association was stronger in obese women and African-American women. The study was published February 14 inStroke, a journal of the American Heart Association. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - February 20, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Brain's Cerebellum Found to Influence Addictive and Social Behavior
BRONX, NY—(January 17, 2019)—In a study published online today in the journal Science, researchers atAlbert Einstein College of Medicine, part ofMontefiore, prove for the first time that the brain’s cerebellum—long thought to be mainly involved in coordinating movement—helps control the brain’s reward circuitry. The surprising finding indicates that the cerebellum plays a major role in reward processing and social behaviors and could potentially lead to new strategies for treating addiction. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - January 17, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Einstein Responds to the Urgent Need for Effective Ebola Treatments
The current ebolavirus outbreak in central Africa’s Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ranks as the second largest and second deadliest in history: more than 600 cases and more than 370 deaths as of January 6, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Adding to the tragedy: children—who are much more likely to die from Ebola infection than adults—now account for more than one third of all cases. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - January 9, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Einstein Receives $172 Million in NIH Funding in Fiscal Year 2018
November 30, 2018—BRONX, NY—Capping off another successful research year,faculty members at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore, received $172 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in federal fiscal year 2018. (Einstein also received an additional $5.4 million from select federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which is administered through the NIH). Investigators will use the funding to pursue a wide range of basic, translational and clinical research and training projects, including projects ...
Source: Einstein News - November 30, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Einstein Faculty Receive NIH Career Development Awards
November 30, 2018—(BRONX, NY)—The National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers career development grants to advance the careers of young researchers—usually senior postdoctoral fellows or early-career faculty members. These grants, known as K awards, enable recipients to conduct independent research and eventually compete for major grant support. Seven Einstein researchers received K awards in federal fiscal year 2018. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - November 30, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Study Identifies How Hantaviruses Infect Lung Cells
November 21, 2018—(BRONX, NY)—Hantaviruses cause severe and sometimes fatal respiratory infections, but how they infect lung cells has been a mystery. In today’s issue of Nature, an international team including researchers atAlbert Einstein College of Medicine reports that hantaviruses gain entry to lung cells by“unlocking” a cell-surface receptor called protocadherin-1 (PCDH1). Deleting this receptor made lab animals highly resistant to infection. The findings show that targeting PCDH1 could be a useful strategy against deadlyhantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - November 21, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Novel Combination Therapy Promotes Wound Healing
October 25, 2018—(BRONX, NY)—By incorporating a gene-suppressing drug into an over-the-counter gel, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and their colleagues cut healing time by half and significantly improved healing outcomes compared to control treatments. Results from the combination therapy, which was tested in mice, were published online today in Advances in Wound Care. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - October 25, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
$3.3 Million Grant to Train Learning Health System Researchers
October 18, 2018—(BRONX, NY)—Einstein-Montefiore has received a $3.3 million grant to establish a Learning Health System (LHS) Center of Excellence, called Excellence in Promoting LHS Operations and Research at Einstein/Montefiore (EXPLORE). One of 11 nationally and the only one in New York, the new center will embrace a range of disciplines—from physicians and nurses to pharmacists and data scientists—to improve the quality of patient care. By training seven scholars over the next five years, the center aims to accelerate advances in quality across the system, from improving sepsis care to betterin...
Source: Einstein News - October 18, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Breakthrough Treatment Helps Prolong Life for People with Metastatic Lung Cancer
September 26, 2018—(BRONX, NY)—When lung cancer has spread, or metastasized, to other parts of the body, standard chemotherapy offers only a modest survival benefit. Now, in a major advance described in today’s issue of theNew England Journal of Medicine, an international team, including researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System, report that combining chemotherapy with the immunotherapy drug Keytruda extends the lives of people with metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by more than 40 percent compared with chemotherapy alone—a significant imp...
Source: Einstein News - September 26, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
National Recognition for Einstein Montefiore Addiction Specialist
September 21, 2018—(BRONX, NY)—Chinazo Cunningham, M.D., M.S., anAlbert Einstein College of Medicine andMontefiore Health System expert in opioid use disorder, has been selected to serve on a board advising the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on best approaches to address the nation’s opioid epidemic. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - September 21, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
