Patient Care Blog

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Preventing Cancer: The Essential Guide

While there鈥檚 no guaranteed way to prevent cancer from settling into your body, you can take steps to reduce your risk. Here are a few to get started.

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Seeing Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Yourself Clearly

Body dysmorphic disorder impacts mental health and daily life. Learn more about BDD symptoms and how to get it under control.

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Podcast: What Is Heart-Healthy Living?

In this episode of Back to Health, Dr. Bob Harrington discusses the importance of heart-healthy living through the life stages.

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Whooping Cough Is No Ordinary Respiratory Illness

Unlike the viral infections that typically make you cough鈥攁 cold, the flu and COVID-19, for example鈥攚hooping cough is caused by a bacteria called Bordetella pertussis. It is a strictly human illness

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Dr. Stephanie Mick: Blazing a Trail in Robotic Mitral Valve Repair

When Stephanie L. Mick, M.D., saw a beating heart during her general surgery residency at NewYork-Presbyterian, she knew that cardiac surgery was her calling.鈥淚 was trying to decide what I wanted to specialize in within surgery, and it was getting to the point where I was at the end of my rope,鈥 says Dr. Mick, director of robotic and minimally invasive cardiac surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian and 91成人导航. 鈥淚 was on a thoracic surgery rotation, and part of the operation included... Read More

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Breast and Ovarian Cancer Prevention: Empowering Patients Through Support and Knowledge

Drs. Shoshana Rosenberg, Laura Pinheiro, and Vered Stearns received a community partnership-building grant last summer from the Cornell Center for Health Equity to establish a partnership between the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center (MCC) Breast Program and Unite for HER, a non-profit organization supporting and empowering individuals diagnosed with breast and ovarian cancer.

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Infographic: When Sudden Cardiac Arrest Strikes

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is when your heart stops beating. When this happens, blood no longer flows to your brain and other organs. A quick response is vital.

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Guiding Your Child Towards a Heart-Healthy Life

Want your child to have a healthy heart throughout life? It doesn鈥檛 happen by accident. Incorporate these heart-healthy habits.

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Infographic: Take 8 for Heart Health

The American Heart Association recently updated and expanded Life鈥檚 Simple Seven鈩 to Life鈥檚 Essential 8鈩. Follow these steps to better heart health.

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Video: Navigating Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)

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