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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital ranks #1 in New York and among the top 10 in the nation out of the nearly 5,000 hospitals evaluated by U.S. News & World Report for its 2012-13 Best Hospitals rankings. One of the largest and most comprehensive medical centers in the nation, the Hospital is currently being spotlighted on the critically-acclaimed national medical series "NY Med" from ABC News, which airs at 10 p.m. (ET) Tuesday evenings throughout the summer.

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Every year, more than 100,000 Americans will need a life-saving organ transplant, yet in 2011 fewer than 22,000 transplants took place in the United States. In New York only 18 percent of New Yorkers who are eligible to donate are registered as organ donors, in stark contrast to the national average of 42 percent.

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The activity and excitement of the holidays tend to make people less careful when they should be more cautious. In the United States, there are an estimated 47,000 fires every holiday season that claim more than 500 lives a year.

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The Board of Trustees of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital announced today that it has named Steven J. Corwin, M.D., as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital. Dr. Corwin succeeds Herbert Pardes, M.D., who is retiring as head of the Hospital and will become Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the only tri-state-area hospital listed on the 2011–12 U.S. News Media Group Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll, and the hospital ranks eighth in the country in pediatric care.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital will receive an ENERGY STAR Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management, recognizing the Hospital's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. It is the sixth award for NewYork-Presbyterian -- more than any other hospital in the country -- and the only award of its kind given this year to a hospital in the Northeast.

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With childhood asthma rates in Northern Manhattan four times the national average, the Ambulatory Care Network at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital partnered with the community of Washington Heights/Inwood to initiate the Washington-Heights Inwood Network (WIN) for Asthma program. The program began in May 2006 to improve outcomes for children with poorly controlled asthma by providing culturally relevant asthma education. To date, Community Health Workers have enrolled 400 families.

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NewYork-Presbyterian has created a new careers and nursing website to recruit the best and brightest for a wide range of clinical and non-clinical positions. The innovative site -- www.nyp.org/careers -- simplifies the process of searching and applying for a job, while featuring the real stories of Hospital employees.

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Drs. Roscoe O. Brady and Charles Robert Scriver are the recipients of the 2010 Pollin Prize in recognition of their discovery of the molecular and biochemical basis of genetic inborn errors of metabolism and for applying these findings to the development of practical interventions that have improved the lives and health of countless children and infants.

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The Hebrew Home at Riverdale has joined the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System as an affiliate member. Formalized on February 1, 2010, the new affiliation reinforces and builds on the longterm relationship between The Hebrew Home and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

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In a move that could change the way many patients undergo surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has installed five state-of-the-art Siemens Artis zeego® medical imaging systems that provide faster, more accurate 3-D images of the body with a quality never before attainable. With more complete information, surgeons can better assess a patient's condition, devise a detailed surgical plan, and provide more targeted surgical treatment.

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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, in affiliation with the New York State Psychiatric Institute, announced the creation of an integrated eating disorders center.

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Demonstrating its commitment to clean energy and cost savings, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has switched on the first hospital-based co-generation plant in Manhattan. Located at 70th St. and York Ave. and unveiled today in a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the plant promises to reduce the emission of 20,000 tons of pollutants each year, the equivalent of taking 3,600 automobiles off the road, while adding millions of dollars in annual cost savings.

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Study suggests men with sexual dysfunction should be screened for low testosterone.

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In a paper published in this month's Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University reported that mice that were administered a gene-based therapeutic agent showed marked acceleration of the onset of new hair growth two weeks after treatment.

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A painless, 20-second test could save more than 100,000 lives annually in the United States by detecting lung cancer at an early, curable stage, say researchers. Their findings, published in the July 10th issue of The Lancet, show that low-dose CT (low-radiation-dose computed tomography) can find lung tumors long before they appear on traditional chest x-rays.

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A new treatment protocol of Interleukin II (IL-2) is currently under development as an immune stimulant for HIV-positive individuals who have responded to medication but have not achieved recovery of their immune system.

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Researchers at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital have successfully used a new technique to identify the genetic mutation that causes sickle cell anemia, As a result, healthy twins were born to parents who both carry the mutation.

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When a patient makes a request for assistance with suicide, the physician's response should not be a simple yes or no. Instead, the caregiver should engage the patient in a dialogue exploring the meanings behind the request. Only then can the physician determine whether the request is "rational" or driven by other factors, writes a Columbia-Presbyterian psychiatrist in JAMA.

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Radiation treatment for breast cancer slightly raises a woman's long-term risk for esophageal cancer, according to a study conducted by epidemiologists at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

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Enhanced external counterpulsation, a noninvasive, outpatient therapy for chronic angina, is safe and effective, according to a multicenter trial led by Columbia-Presbyterian. Results of the trial, the first randomized study of EECP, were presented at the annual meeting of the AHA in Orlando.

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A novel technique for repairing leaky mitral valves, involving the placement of a single suture, is undergoing clinical trials at Columbia-Presbyterian. It may be possible to perform the repair with minimally invasive techniques, eliminating the need for open-heart surgery. Two studies of the new procedure were presented at the annual meeting of the AHA.

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A Columbia-Presbyterian study has demonstrated that patients under general anesthesia are capable of processing certain types of auditory information such as word-pair associations. The findings, presented at the annual meeting of the AHA, raise the possibility that words or music played during surgery can be used to condition patients to respond better during recovery.

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A Columbia-Presbyterian study has demonstrated that brain scans and neuropsychiatric tests can help doctors determine whether psychiatric problems are due to Lyme disease or a primary psychiatric disorder.

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Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center has announced the opening of the Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders, and Women's Health, the first of its kind in the New York metropolitan area.

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Borrowing from the field of dentistry, otolaryngologists are using titanium bone implants to create permanent anchors for prosthetic ears. This is a major advance for people who are missing an ear because of cancer, trauma, or birth defects.

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A breathable liquid for treating children in acute respiratory distress is undergoing clinical trials Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. The liquid, called perflubron, is administered to the lungs with a conventional respirator.

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Researchers at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center have found that population-wide sperm counts vary significantly from year to year, and that these variations coincide with yearly changes in birth rates. The findings, to be published in the March issue of the Journal of Urology, may also explain why previous fertility studies have concluded that sperm counts around the world are declining.

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Neurologists and nutritionists at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center are using a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet to control seizures in epileptic children who do not respond to, or cannot tolerate, medication. The "ketogenic diet" was actually devised in the 1920s, but fell out of favor with the advent of effective anti-seizure medications.