Nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore have voted to ratify their agreement on new contracts on Wednesday, while the strike will continue for union nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian.

Striking nurses at Mount Sinai approved a new contract that ends a monthlong strike at its hospitals, but their counterparts at NewYork Presbyterian rejected a proposed deal Wednesday, ensuring the walkout will continue at some of New York City's major medical centers.

Mount Sinai Health System and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield failed to reach a contract agreement by Dec. 31, which means about 9,000 physicians are no longer considered in-network.

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center finds that pleurectomy/decortication, a lung-sparing surgery, can be performed safely with low mortality in carefully selected patients with pleural mesothelioma,