The fall 2024 issue of Impact, Weill Cornell Medicine’s bi-annual magazine, features Change of Heart — a story about pursuing innovative clinical trials and treatment to tackle long-standing sex disparities in outcomes for cardiac surgery.

Other stories include:
• The Dark Side of STING — vital new insights into how a protein known for triggering inflammation can both hinder, and accelerate, cancer.
• Teaching Empathy in the Digital Age — how virtual “patients” could transfrom the way doctors are trained.
• Taming Weed — how medicine and public health best address largely unregulated, readily available and potentially harmful THC products.
• Unraveling the Riddle of Suicide Risk — new preventive strategies that leverage cutting-edge computational techniques and cross-disciplinary strategies.

Read the new issue of Impact magazine on the Weill Cornell Medicine website.

Cover story illustration by Kristen Meyer. Additional illustration and photography by Matt Twombly, Stephanie Diani, Ana Miminoshivili and Elia Sampo.