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LIJ, Cohen Receive $1.4M in City Grants
Source: Anton Community Newspapers

August 31, 2012

Allocated funds from Queens Borough President Marshall.

August 31, 2012

Federal scientists have isolated a new virus in ticks that has never occurred in the Western Hemisphere and are calling on scientists elsewhere -- including those on Long Island -- to search for evidence of the disease-causing pathogen.

August 30, 2012

Companies fight obesity, but much more can be done.

August 30, 2012

Barbara Keber, MD associate director of the Family Medicine Residency program at Glen Cove Hospital, was recently named Physician of the Year by MNYADE.

August 30, 2012

Following a healthy lifestyle can lead to a longer life, even among people who are already well into their 70s, new research shows.

August 30, 2012

Scientists may be one step closer to identifying what causes rosacea thanks to research that pinpoints bacteria in skin mites as the culprit.

August 30, 2012

A vacationer who went missing this week in Montauk was identified Thursday as director of fundraising at Huntington Hospital.

August 29, 2012

Whether you've broken your wrist and it's been immobilized in a cast for weeks, or you've had a bad bout with sciatica, chances are that the physician treating you will recommend some physical therapy to get you moving properly again.

August 29, 2012

Adding the clot-busting drug Plavix to a daily dose of aspirin is no better than taking aspirin alone to prevent a second stroke in people who have had a type of stroke that is typically caused by chronic high blood pressure, a new study shows.

August 29, 2012

Consuming a moderate amount of chocolate weekly may lower the risk of stroke for men, according to a new study.

August 29, 2012

Vitamin B3 may offer a new way to treat infections from potentially deadly staph bacteria such as MRSA, according to a new study.

August 28, 2012

A Long Island congressman is calling attention to the potential danger of radiation exposure at our nation’s airports.

August 28, 2012

A drug commonly used to control epileptic seizures and pain, gabapentin, also appears to ease hard-to-treat chronic coughs, a new study says.

August 28, 2012

Joseph Demorato arrived at the scene of Monday night's horrific accident on Hylan Boulevard to treat an injured paramedic -- and saw the face of David Restuccio, a friend of 25 years, looking up at him.

August 28, 2012

Dr. Craig H.Rosenberg says repetitive injuries have become somewhat less common.

August 28, 2012

Infection with a common virus may increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes in older adults, a new study from the Netherlands suggests.

August 27, 2012

Art can have a positive impact on how doctors deal with their patients, according to medical professionals who took part in a study at Staten Island University Hospital. NY1's Amanda Farinacci filed the following report.

August 27, 2012

Nose jobs done with a common type of plastic implant may have a higher complication rate than previously thought, researchers said Monday.

August 27, 2012

A wild collision between an ambulance and an SUV has left two people dead, one of them a retired FDNY EMS lieutenant working as a paramedic for Staten Island University Hospital.

August 27, 2012

The health benefits of circumcision outweigh the procedure's risks, and the operation should be covered by insurance, according to new recommendations from an influential group of doctors.

August 27, 2012

The American Cancer Society of Staten Island announced changes to their Advisory Board of Directors last week during an induction ceremony at the Staaten, West Brighton.

August 26, 2012

Reports that Staten Island had New York City’s first human case of West Nile virus this year and currently has the highest level of disease-carrying mosquitoes in the state has heightened awareness among local nurses on the lookout for symptoms.

August 26, 2012

Are you like the majority of Staten Islanders who are fed up with the mayor's efforts to control your eating, smoking and even soda drinking habits?

August 25, 2012

The End of IVF?; Outsmarting the Number One Killer of Women

August 25, 2012

Michael Dowling, who runs one of New York’s largest hospital networks, is preparing to turn his business model on its head: He wants to keep his hospital beds empty, rather than full.

August 24, 2012

A simple form of meditation can help stave off feelings of loneliness and may cut the body's inflammatory response -- which can trigger serious illness -- to distressing emotions, a small new study suggests.

August 24, 2012

More and more children are being treated for gallstones, and the obesity epidemic may play a role.

August 24, 2012

Orthopedic surgeons Dr. Giles Scuderi of Franklin Hospital and Dr. Fred Cushner of Southside Hospital discuss the joint replacement surgeries they recently performed as part of Operation Walk, a nonprofit volunteer medical services organization that provides free surgical treatment for patients who have no access to life-improving care.

August 23, 2012

An event was held at the Sands Point Preserve Spirit for the Feinstein Institute, a 5 Kilometer Run that attracted 300 finishers ro navigate a combination of paths.

August 23, 2012

Eagle-eyed bridge and tunnel cops saved the life of a Staten Island man — and later visited him and his ecstatic wife in the hospital, authorities said.

August 23, 2012

You may not have heard of dendritic spines, which are very tiny bumps on the surface of the nerve cells. But new research shows that changes in their structure may be contributing to diabetic neuropathy, a painful, chronic condition affecting nearly 50 percent of individuals with diabetes, according to research reported in Science Daily.

August 23, 2012

As if the physical woes that accompany obesity aren't bad enough, many obese Americans say they face discrimination and stigma because of their weight, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll found.

August 23, 2012

11 North Shore-LIJ Hospitals Recognized for Stroke Care

August 22, 2012

Doctors are reporting a new benefit from weight-loss surgery — preventing diabetes. Far fewer obese people developed that disease if they had stomach-shrinking operations rather than usual care to try to slim down, a large study in Sweden found.

August 22, 2012

Ninety percent of American high school students report that some of their classmates are using illicit drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, during the school day, a new survey found.

August 21, 2012

Dr.Nicholas Sgaglione, in his Graet Neck Office, says bone loss prevention starts in childhood.

August 21, 2012

For students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, making the transition to college can be especially difficult. But by adopting certain strategies, such as sticking to a structured daily schedule and tapping into the university's disability support services, freshman with ADHD can do well, according to experts and teens with the condition.

August 21, 2012

Patients with schizophrenia who are heavy cigarette smokers are more likely to use substances such as alcohol than are those with the disease who are non–heavy smokers.

August 21, 2012

So you smell, huh? Nothing sends 'em running like a serious case of B.O. Forget the fancy outfit, the blown-out and styled hair. One funky whiff or two and, yikes, you're alone at the party. Calling body odor embarrassing doesn't exactly do it justice.

August 21, 2012

Doctors are always looking for better ways to predict who will have a heart attack, especially in people who have an intermediate risk of heart disease. Now, studies have compared some available tests and found just one that was significantly better than the others: coronary artery calcium scans.

August 21, 2012

Love her or hate her, you have to admire Rosie O’Donnell for having the chutzpah to be frank about suffering a heart attack a few days ago.

August 21, 2012

A newer generation, drug-releasing stent led to fewer adverse cardiac events, such as heart-related death or heart attack linked to the same artery, than bare metal stents did among heart attack patients, a new study shows.

August 20, 2012

The potential for a stroke is far more common after a bypass than after angioplasty, new research reports, even though the risk after either heart procedure is still relatively low.

August 19, 2012

The notion that eating certain foods when feeling blue is a form of self-medicating is gaining traction after scientists identified some ingredients very similar chemically to a widely used prescription mood-stabilizing drug.

August 18, 2012

Since the explosion of the Internet, people—even those suffering from a harmless headache or fever—have been turning to Google and health information websites to learn what’s ailing them, oftentimes discovering dubious prognoses that have them scampering to their doctors with faulty evidence they think proves they’re severely ill, or worse.

August 17, 2012

Different ways parents can help children cope with the phobia of going back to school.

August 17, 2012

Plainview Hospital appoints Nicholas J. Gargiulo, III, MD, as lead surgeon.

August 17, 2012

Serving children a healthy lunch helps them do their best in school.

August 17, 2012

Guide on how to get your kids ready for school.

August 17, 2012

The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System has leased 3,857 square feet at 200 Boundary Ave. in Massapequa.

August 17, 2012

A new blood screening test can potentially determine if a person is having a heart attack within one hour, a fraction of the time it takes right now.

August 16, 2012

Three North Shore-LIJ Hospitals were ranked among the nation's top 50 hospitals in 5 clinical areas in US News & World Report.

August 16, 2012

Representatives from North Shore LIJ Health System met wirh the fire officials to discuss the project and its implication on fire services with the village of Massapequa Park.

August 16, 2012

The North Shore-LIJ Health System recently announced the appointment of Winifred Mack, RN, the executive director of Southside Hospital since 2006, as the health system's eastern regional executive director, giving her oversight of Franklin, Huntington, Plainview, Southside and Syosset hospitals.

August 16, 2012

In a revolutionary breakthrough that could potentially end blindness forever, New York neuroscientists are revealing in excitement that they have successfully restored sight to blind mice in a brand new experiment

August 16, 2012

An experimental drug known as mepolizumab may reduce outbreaks by almost 50 percent in people with a type of hard-to-treat asthma, an early study finds.

August 16, 2012

Breast cancer chemotherapy treatment during pregnancy appears largely safe for both mother and child, an international registry affirmed

August 15, 2012

The latest entry in the scientific debate over the value of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing suggests its overall worth remains far from clear.

August 15, 2012

After months of silence from his office about his absence from Congress, the Mayo Clinic has announced that Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., (D-Ill.) is being treated at the facility for bipolar disorder.

August 15, 2012

The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System has chosen UnitedHealthcare to manage more than a dozen health insurance plans it offers to employees

August 14, 2012

Having a cocoa-rich drink every day as part of a calorie-controlled and nutritionally-balanced diet could improve brain function in older adults, according to a new study.

August 14, 2012

North Shore-LIJ Health System in metropolitan New York expects to save $8 million by sharpening its focus on labor. Jim Bosco, vice president of corporate human resources at health system, recently discussed the benefits of its new workforce management technology with Healthcare Finance News Editor René Letourneau.

August 14, 2012

Although most treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) focus on the affected individual, researchers report that a new therapy that includes the patient's partner not only improved symptoms, but also increased the couples' satisfaction with their relationship.

August 14, 2012

Newer, more expensive schizophrenia medications are not noticeably better than their older, cheaper counterparts, a new review suggests.

August 14, 2012

Women who are overweight or obese at the start of pregnancy are much more likely than healthy-weight women to deliver large babies, according to new research.

August 13, 2012

More than 2,000 hospitals — including some nationally recognized ones — will be penalized by the government starting in October because many of their patients are readmitted soon after discharge, new records show.

August 13, 2012

A U.S. government panel of experts says there's just not enough good data to either support or refute the need for routine screening for hearing loss in people aged 50 or older.

August 13, 2012

Drinking a cocoa-rich beverage every day may help brain health in older adults, a new study shows.

August 13, 2012

A new study shows that the chemotherapy drug vandetanib (Caprelsa) may extend life a bit for some thyroid cancer patients.

August 13, 2012

Preschool-aged kids who snore loudly on a regular basis may be at a greater risk for behavioral problems, a study shows.

August 10, 2012

Happiness in adulthood may be determined by the quality of relationships in your youth, not brain power or academic prowess, new Australian research suggests.

August 9, 2012

People who are overweight or obese when they are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes appear to live longer than people whose body weight is normal when their disease is detected, a new study shows.

August 9, 2012

A Corona man’s untimely death from an almost asymptomatic disease saved his brothers from the same fate.

August 9, 2012

The benefits of taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs outweigh the risks even among people who are likely to develop diabetes, researchers report.

August 9, 2012

A new pill may soon offer people with rheumatoid arthritis an alternative to the injections and intravenous infusions that many rely on to treat their disease.

August 9, 2012

If you’ve ever spent time in a hospital — either as a patient, staff member, or visitor — then you know that institutional health care is extremely complicated by nature.

August 9, 2012

Patient-visiting policies at many Long Island hospitals are inflexible or not clear, according to a survey released Wednesday.

August 8, 2012

A small trial of a vaccine already approved for tuberculosis found that the vaccine can kill the rogue autoimmune cells that are active players in type 1 diabetes.

August 8, 2012

Plainview Hospital plans to build a state-of-the-art vascular lab to diagnose and assist in screening and provide preventative care for vascular disease, hospital officials said.

August 8, 2012

After the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health Systemnamed Catherine Hottendorf executive director of Franklin Hospital a few weeks ago, she toured the 305-bed facility, getting a feel for her new job.

August 8, 2012

North Shore University Hospital’s use of cameras to track whether staff in the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) and surgical ICU are washing their hands before and after patient interactions has helped increase hand hygiene compliance to about 90 percent.

August 8, 2012

Patient controlled analgesia (PCA) pain pumps are commonly used medical devices that allow patients to self-administer pain medication with the push of a button. "PCA is an effective way and a desirable way to give patients pain medicine," says Frank J. Overdyk, MD, an anesthesiologist at North Shore University Hospital.

August 8, 2012

Many of the Olympians competing in London are juiced -- though not in the colloquial sense that someone is doping. Instead, the juice these athletes are imbibing is literal, with beetroot juice and tart cherry juice two of the most popular choices.

August 7, 2012

In a small study of patients with incurable cancer, drinking 8 ounces of grapefruit juice a day boosted the effect of a drug they were given during the study.

August 7, 2012

A new study suggests that a common asthma drug may be able to help children with sleep apnea avoid surgery.

August 7, 2012

Cholesterol levels among U.S. kids have improved in recent decades, but almost one in 10 still has high total cholesterol, which endangers their heart health, U.S. health officials report in a new study.

August 7, 2012

A doctor has performed a still-new procedure on a patient of the Queens Long Island Medical Group using catheters as an alternative to open heart surgery.

August 7, 2012

North Shore-LIJ’s Response To Hurricane Offers Lessons, Including The Need For Mandatory Interfacility Drills

August 7, 2012

Cardiologist Dr. Jennifer Mieres, senior VP of North Shore-LIJ's Office of Public and Community Health, discusses women's heart health with Katie Couric.

August 6, 2012

When his mother's kidneys began to fail three years ago, Ed Guillen knew what he had to do: donate one of his kidneys to her. But Mr. Guillen received a shock during a phone call with the Stanford Kidney Transplant Clinic, where his mother was being treated. He was ineligible to be a donor, even before tests to see if he was a genetic match.

August 6, 2012

As the director of the Children’s Cancer Center at Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), she is asked this fairly often and wishes she could provide her young patients with a reason.

August 6, 2012

Baltimore—A five-year quality improvement effort at a California children’s hospital aimed at revamping the facility’s “smart” programmable infusion pump drug libraries has significantly bolstered the technology’s impact on patient safety.

August 6, 2012

As part of its ongoing efforts to develop patient-centric services that focus on disease prevention and management, the North Shore-LIJ Health System has created the New York Head and Neck Institute and opened the Center for Cranial Base Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital.

August 6, 2012

North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., has been designated as an Academic Center of Excellence for minimally invasive surgery in gynecologic oncology and gynecology by the American Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery.

August 4, 2012

Lead without Limits," was the resounding theme of the 10th annual nursing leadership conference sponsored by the Institute for Nursing, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.

August 4, 2012

For good health, be sure to eat fruits and vegetables, exercise regularly and lie as seldom as possible.

August 3, 2012

North Shore University Hospital has been recognized as one of the nation's best hospital at using information technology to improve efficiency and quality of care.

August 3, 2012

Obesity is a growing epidemic in America, with average weight on a steady increase as diets become more caloric and processed and work becomes ever more sedentary — but it appears denial is also on the rise, mainly in relation to weight issues.

August 3, 2012

There are only 600 CDEs located in NY State, with an average age of 53, 68% of whom work less than 25 hours per week.

August 3, 2012

When the internet saw its rise in prominence, many worried that people would retreat to their own corners, surrounded by people who believed exactly the way that they did. To a large extent, that has happened, as evidenced by Fox Nation and Daily Kos. But the internet also gave rise to the "troll," so-called for internet users who spout views contrary to the site's readers. And with that has come cyber-bullying.

August 3, 2012

A national breast cancer charity is being accused of using misleading statistics to convince women to have mammograms, according to a paper published Thursday in the British Medical Journal.

August 3, 2012

Boy, 6, with blood cancer to be focus of drive at Yankees game to sign up new bone marrow donors.

August 3, 2012

Stuart Hayim was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1979 at age 32 and hospitalized at the Don Monti Division of Oncology at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.

August 2, 2012

Many Americans think that people's individual decisions — not societal factors — are to blame for the obesity epidemic, but this is an oversimplified view that could hinder progress toward obesity prevention, researchers argue in a new editorial.

August 2, 2012

The hospital, the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, tried for 13 days to get various medical schools and labs to take George's body, but no one wanted it. Probably because he weighed 300 pounds.

August 2, 2012

For the 21 million American adults suffering from arthritis, stiff, painful joints can make even an easy exercise program feel impossible.

August 2, 2012

Just when you think Internet trolls can't possibly get any meaner, a 17-year-old was arrested this week for harassing Olympic diver Tom Daley after he failed to win a medal.

August 2, 2012

An experimental spray-on skin product may help people with chronic leg wounds heal faster and more effectively than available treatments, a new study suggests.

August 1, 2012

Engaing the geometry, North Shore-LIJ Katz Womens Hospital

August 1, 2012

For psychiatric patients today, finding the right drug at the right dose is almost always a matter of trial and error.

August 1, 2012

Revamping drug libraries at heart of the quality improvement efforts.

August 1, 2012

The issue of capital has never been more compelling, with hospitals racing to meet meaningful use requirements.

August 1, 2012

Some people living in a remote part of the Amazon jungle produce antibodies against the rabies virus, according to a new study.

August 1, 2012

The amyloid beta protein, long tied to Alzheimer's disease, may actually help reverse paralysis and inflammation in people with multiple sclerosis (MS)

August 1, 2012

The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine has admitted 60 students as its second class, including more than half from New York and roughly a quarter from Long Island.

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