Celebrating Heart Health Month

Celebrating Heart Health Month

Cheyenne Hayward, RN, left, Coronary Care Unit, The Mount Sinai Hospital, checks the blood pressure of visitor Joan Innocent.

More than 775 staff and visitors attended health fairs sponsored by Mount Sinai Heart on Friday, February 5, Go Red for Women Day®, an annual educational event that spotlights the risks of cardiovascular disease. Participants received free screenings for high blood pressure, cholesterol, weight, glucose, and peripheral vascular disease, and learned about nutrition and diet, diabetes, stress management, smoking cessation, and relaxation techniques. Other events included exercise workshops, support group meetings, and educational lectures sponsored by Women’s Heart NY, a comprehensive Mount Sinai Health System heart program.

Bringing Women’s Healthcare to Sex Workers: An impromptu meeting

Guest post by Molly Lieber, LMSW, MPH, Project Manager of the Division of Global Women’s Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Dr. Ann Marie Beddoe in Liberia.

 Ann Marie Beddoe, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Our Director, Dr. Ann Marie Beddoe, has traveled to Liberia, a small country in West Africa, for the past 9 years.  With a focus on gynecologic oncology, Dr. Beddoe has been focused on the continuum of care for women with cancer.  Specifically, she has worked to advocate for increased cervical cancer screening, trained local health care workers to diagnose and treat women with cancer, and has provided both chemotherapy and surgery to local patients.  (more…)

Beautiful Lips for Valentines Day

Guest Post by Joshua Rosenberg, MD, Assistant Professor and Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. To make an appointment with Dr. Rosenberg, call 212-241-9410 or visit www.mountsinai.org/ent and complete the Make an Appointment form.

Joshua Rosenberg, MD“My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.”

– William Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet

The lips are an essential part of the human face. Their shape and proportion are important arbiters of beauty and a youthful appearance. These characteristics, widely recognized throughout art and literature, often place lips in a central position in matters of attraction and love. As Valentine’s Day approaches, recent trends in full, well-defined lips, coupled with increased interest in plastic surgery procedures by younger patients, is driving interest in all forms of lip enhancement. (more…)

Dubin Breast Center Holds Annual Symposium

Dubin Breast Center Holds Annual Symposium

From left: Joel Dudley, PhD; Elisa Port, MD; Perri Peltz; Emily Sonnenblick, MD; Hanna Irie, MD, PhD; Michael Brodman, MD; Eva Andersson Dubin, MD; and Marisa Acocella Marchetto

Five leading researchers and clinicians at the Mount Sinai Health System discussed the latest trends in women’s health with more than 100 guests at the Dubin Breast Center’s fourth annual Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon and Symposium, held recently in midtown Manhattan. Mount Sinai’s experts responded to questions from the audience on pressing issues such as advances in cancer immunotherapy; how each person’s unique microbiome, or bacteria, interacts with his or her immune system; and whether chemotherapy is the best treatment for all invasive breast cancers. (more…)

A Modern Approach to Reproduction and Fertility

By Alan B. Copperman, MD, Clinical Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, the Mount Sinai Hospital.

Alan CoppermanMany of us are surprised to hear how difficult it is for humans to conceive. In fact, the chance of getting pregnant during any given cycle is only one in five. As women age, however, the likelihood of conceiving a healthy pregnancy decreases. This is largely due to the age-related decline in ovarian function. When a woman is in her twenties nearly 90% of her eggs are normal, while by the time she is in her forties, nearly 90% of her eggs are chromosomally abnormal. Increased awareness of these data and new emerging treatment modalities are combining to combat the basic biological realities. (more…)

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