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Firefighters on the scene of a late-night fire Thursday at a strip mall in Mount Sinai at 331 Rte.

Certain statins -- the widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs -- may increase your chances of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.

Our closest relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, breast-feed their offspring for several years.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will work collaboratively on a range of research programs in Neuroscience, genomics, imaging technology and big data analysis under an agreement signed Wednesday morning at Rensselaer's Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Research on the Troy campus.

The exact amount hospitals charge for procedures has been a closely guarded trade secret for decades.

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Patients with treatment-resistant major depression saw dramatic improvement in their illness after treatment with ketamine, an anesthetic, according to the largest ketamine clinical trial to-date led by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

In MT Sinai accident cleared on NY Rt-25a/Suffolk Cnty/Eastern Section WB at CR-83/Patchogue Mt Sinai Rd WASHINGTON - A top White House adviser insisted President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for answers on ... (more)

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing new regulations for tanning beds, and it may affect whether young people have access to them at all.

NEW YORK , May 18, 2013 . Chronic trauma can inflict lasting damage to brain regions associated with fear and anxiety.

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One of the world's most glamorous women had an operation that once was terribly disfiguring - the removal of both breasts.

Last Friday night, Israel's Channel 10 reported that, as per the Prime Minister's office's specific request, a special "rest chamber" was installed in the airplane which took Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife on a mere five hour flight to 's funeral in London last month.

A surgeon at Mount Sinai Medical Center has been relieved from his clinical and administrative duties after removing the wrong kidney from a patient, hospital officials said yesterday.

In honor of National Home Improvement Month this May, the National Association of the Remodeling Industry advises homeowners of the 10 most important steps to take before the remodeling project starts.

NARI Elects New Officers for 2013-2014 During its 2013 spring business meeting, the National Association of the Remodeling Industry named immediate past president Dean Herriges, MCR, CKBR, of Urban Herriges & Sons Inc.

DBV Technologies , creator of Viaskin , a new standard in the treatment of allergies, announced today a partnership with the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for research related to the mechanism by which epicutaneous immunotherapy using Viaskin leads to immune tolerance to food antigens.

Toxic waste sites with elevated levels of lead and chromium cause a high number of "healthy years of life lost" in individuals living near 373 sites located in India, Philippines and Indonesia, according to a study by a Mount Sinai researcher published online in Environmental Health Perspectives .

I mean, apart from the whole editor-in-chief of Real Simple magazine thing. And the published author thing.

Jeffrey I. Mechanick, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E., F.A.C.N., E.C.N.U. was elected President of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists at its 22 nd Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress in Phoenix, on Saturday, May 4, 2013.