News/Press Releases 2007

December 21, 2007
William L. Carroll, M.D., Appointed Director of NYU Cancer Institute

December 18, 2007
Dr. Jill Buyon Receives Evelyn V. Hess Research Award

December 18, 2007
Rusk Children and Staff Celebrate the Holidays With a Sing-Along

December 7, 2007
Positive Phase II Trial Results for Vigabatrin in the Treatment of Cocaine Addiction

December 5, 2007
NYU Child Study Center Raises Nearly $9 Million and Celebrates 10th Anniversary at Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner

November 29, 2007
Vice President Cheney Treated for Irregular Heartbeat

November 18, 2007
A Novel Way Found to Prevent Protein Plaques Implicated in Alzheimer's

November 9, 2007
Stars and Socialites Turn Out to Gamble for Kids, Raising Money for Steven D. Hassenfeld Center

November 8, 2007
A Molecular Swich is Linked to a Common Breast Cancer

November 7, 2007
A Maternal Link to Alzheimer's Disease

October 18, 2007
Clinical Trial Evaluating Brain Cancer Vaccine is Underway at NYU

October 17, 2007
New Model Predicts More Virulent Microbes

October 12, 2007
NYU Cancer Institute Gala Raises $2.1 Million Highlighting the Marc Jacobs "Protect the Skin You're In" T-Shirt Campaign

October 12, 2007
Models Eva Mendes and Heidi Klum, Among Others, Pose Naked for the Marc Jacobs "Protect the Skin You're In" T-Shirt Campaign

October 8, 2007
Medical Faculty and Trainees Use Blogging to Heighten Educational Experience

October 1, 2007
Study Shows Early Family Intervention Alters Preschoolers’ Biological Response to Stress

September 10, 2007
Vein Center Open at NYU Medical Center

September 5, 2007
Support and Counseling Helps Alzheimer’s Caregivers Remain Healthy

August 22, 2007
Vaccine Thwarts the Tangles of Alzheimer’s

August 16, 2007
NYU Researcher and Team Find Birth Records Hold Pancreatic Cancer Clue

August 7, 2007
Brain Injury Expert Available to Comment on Blast Concussions Suffered by Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

August 7, 2007
Chief Medical Information Officer for NYU Medical Center Named

August 7, 2007
NYU Researchers Develop a Handheld Device to Detect Subtle Brain Damage Immediately After Concussion

August 1, 2007
NYU Physicians Test New Device for Diagnosing and Treating Prostate Cancer

August 1, 2007
Alzheimer's Association Awards Prestigious Grants to Three Nathan Kline Institute & NYU School of Medicine Dementia Researchers

July 30, 2007
NYU’s Hassenfeld Children’s Center to Host “Always Remembered, Never Forgotten” Song Launch to Raise Money for Child Patients and the Leukemia Lymphoma Society”

July 24, 2007
“Christmas in July” Holiday Party on July 25 for Physically-Challenged Child Patients of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

July 19, 2007
NYU Sports Medicine Expert Discusses Drug Use Allegations in Conjunction With the Benoit Tragedy

July 18, 2007
NYU Physician Inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Radiology

July 9, 2007
NIDA Launches First Large-Scale National Study to Treat Addiction to Prescription Pain Medications

June 27, 2007
NYU School of Medicine and NYU Hospitals Center Will Combine to Create Fully Integrated Academic Medical Center

June 21, 2007
NYU Institute of Community Health and Research Receives Two Grants from NYC Council to Prevent Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Teens and Continue Its Award-Winning Hepatitis B Program

June 18, 2007
Chief of Neuropsychology at NYU Medical Center Testifies at NFL Summit on Concussion Management

June 15, 2007
The Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative and the Leiomyosarcoma Direct Research Foundation Award Grant to New York University School of Medicine Researcher

May 3, 2007
Fifth Annual Latino Health Conference: Social Justice and Latino Health

April 23, 2007
A New Study Links a Stomach Microbe to Asthma Prevention

May 29, 2007

NYU Investigator for NEJM Study on Surgery vs. No Surgery for Back Pain Says Surgery Shows Clean Benefits

March 15, 2007
Biotechnology Study Center Honors Joan V. Ruderman, Salvador Moncada and Charles N. Serhan

March 6, 2007
Dr. Robert I. Grossman Appointed Dean and CEO of NYU Medical Center

February 5, 2007
Human Skin Harbors Completely Unknown Bacteria

February 1, 2007
NYU’s Cardiac & Vascular Institute Partners with the American Heart Association as a Leading Sponsor of the New York City Go Red for Women Campaign

January 23, 2007
Study Finds Stomach Banding Surgery Effective for Adolescents

January 15, 2007
New Study Shows Family Size Affects the Development of Stomach Cancer

January 11, 2007
Scientists Crack the Genome of the Parasite Causing Trichomoniasis

January 10, 2007
NYU School of Medicine Hosts Second Annual Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora