News Releases
Dynamic Father and Son Leaders of nuBest Salon Now Share More Than a Work Address
July 29, 2011
Michael and James Mazzei thank North Shore University Hospital surgeons who performed kidney transplant 10 days ago
Read MoreCohen Children’s Medical Center Designated as Life Support Center of Excellence
July 28, 2011
The ELSO Excellence in Life Support Award recognizes CCMC’s extracorporeal life support program as an internationally distinguished facility with processes, procedures and systems that promote excellence and exceptional care in ECMO.
Read MoreNorth Shore –LIJ Hospitals Offer New Minimally Invasive Outpatient Procedure for Patients with Chronic Lower Back Pain
July 26, 2011
The outpatient procedure, only about an hour long, is done in most cases under a local anesthetic.
Read MoreHofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine Opens
July 25, 2011
Inaugural Class begins orientation week;
Read MoreNorth Shore University Hospital Makes US News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” List for Geriatrics, Gastroenterology
July 21, 2011
US News & World Report, in its “America’s Best Hospitals" issue this week, has recognized North Shore University Hospital(NSUH) in two specialty areas -- geriatric services and gastroenterology.
Read MoreNew Mommy, Daddy and Baby All Born on July 19th
July 21, 2011
Mason Parker born on the same day as the birthday of both of his parents.
Read MoreLIJ Medical Center Receives $3.85M Federal Contract to Partner with Queens World Trade Center Clinical Center at Queens College
July 20, 2011
James Zadroga 9/11 legislation provides long-term health funding and improved access to health services for WTC responders
Read MoreSixth Annual Benefit Concert Raises $1.2 Million for Feinstein Institute
July 15, 2011
The North Shore-LIJ Health System’s sixth annual benefit concert, attended by nearly 1,000 of our closest friends, raised a record-setting $1.2 million for The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research.
Read MoreNorth Shore-LIJ Department of Cardiology Announces New Vice Chair and Director of Cardiac Catheter Lab at LIJ
July 15, 2011
The North Shore-LIJ Health System recently announced the appointment of Barry Kaplan, MD, FACC, to vice chair of the department of cardiology and Rajiv Jauhar, MD, FACC, to director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at LIJ Medical Center (LIJ).
Read MoreMedical Staff Society Honors Dr. Scherr
July 13, 2011
Lawrence Scherr, MD, presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award
Read MoreNorth Shore-LIJ Health System and Institute For Healthcare Improvement Announce Partnership To Reduce Sepsis Mortality
July 11, 2011
Initiative to Focus on Prevention, Early Recognition and Management of Sepsis, and Building on North Shore-LIJ’s Existing Sepsis Research and IHI’s Improvement Experience
Read MoreProlonged Use of Commonly Prescribed Prostate Drugs May Increase Risk for Cancer
July 8, 2011
The prolonged use of a common class of medications used to treat enlarged prostate and lower urinary tract symptoms may result in the increased risk of diagnosis of high grade prostate cancer.
Read MoreNY State’s Medicaid Program Expands Coverage of Smoking Cessation Counseling
July 7, 2011
Expanded Medicaid coverage for smoking cessation counseling
Read MoreDeep Brain Stimulation Surgery Dramatically Improves Teen’s Severe Tourette Syndrome
July 5, 2011
Robbie Lettieri, 17, from Smithtown, is grateful North Shore University Hospital doctors for giving him his life back
Read MoreNine-Year-Old Girl Survives Dangerous Brain Surgery Aided by New Portable CT System
July 1, 2011
A nine-year-old girl who suffered a brain hemorrhage in May and later slipped into a coma thanked her doctors at Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) of New York on Thursday after undergoing life-saving neurosurgery.
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