News Releases
North Shore-LIJ Facilities Now Smoke-Free, Inside and Out
December 31, 2009
The North Shore-LIJ Health System hospitals and other facilities across Long Island, Queens and Staten Island will become entirely smoke free, beginning with the New Year.
Read MoreStudy Shows Fetal Transplants May Benefit Parkinson’s Patients
December 31, 2009
People over age 60 began to show improvements more than a year after fetal dopamine cells were infused into the brain region damaged by Parkinson’s.
Read MoreMedical Update Explores Spinal Cord Injury
December 29, 2009
Advances in treatment, rehabilitation and recovery
Read MoreMedical Update Examines Bipolar Disorder
December 17, 2009
Chronic brain disorder increasingly diagnosed in children
Read MoreNew Health Information System to Connect Hospital Medical Records Across LI
December 16, 2009
The New York metropolitan area’s first independent health information exchange to electronically transfer live data across multiple unaffiliated health care organizations.
Read MoreNorth Shore University Hospital Opens New Retail Pharmacy
December 14, 2009
Vivo Health Pharmacy has full inventory of medication, health and wellness supplies
Read MoreSchneider Children’s Hospital Patients Head to North Pole
December 11, 2009
Guests from Schneider Children's Hospital were invited to visit Santa.
Read MoreMedical Update Explores Childhood Asthma
December 9, 2009
Many of the nine million children under age 18 are not receiving adequate treatment.
Read MoreNorth Shore LIJ Appoints Directors to Lead Stereotactic Radiation Center
December 8, 2009
Michael Schulder, MD, and Jana Fox, MD, are appointed as co-directors of the newly established North Shore-LIJ Center for Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Radiation.
Read MoreCornea Transplant Program to Expand on Long Island
December 3, 2009
Lions Clubs International Foundation Awards Money to Help Relocate Local Eye Bank
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