Northwell strategy cuts to the heart of $4.5B industry
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health is trying on a little wearable technology. Make that a big wearable technology – as in, the Peerbridge Cor, a portable electrocardiogram monitor produced…
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‘Young’ Feinstein scientist nabs national autism award
Efforts to determine the elusive causes of autism have earned national accolades for an up-and-coming Feinstein Institute scientist. Lior Brimberg, an assistant research professor in the Center for Autoimmune and…
PCI pioneer is big score for Hofstra Northwell
By GREGORY ZELLER // A major-league surgeon credited with pioneering the use of stents to promote blood flow in compromised heart valves is now wielding her scalpel – and next-level…
At Zucker Hillside, a new focus on behavioral crises
Reducing emergency room visits by patients suffering long-term psychiatric disorders is the main thrust of a new “crisis center” on the Nassau-Queens border. The Northwell Health system has cut the…
Belly up: NYIT monitor is a gastric breakthrough
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two years after winning a lucrative federal grant to study the human gastric system, New York Institute of Technology assistant professor Aydin Farajidavar has put that…
For med-tech innovators, everywhere is MIDI ground
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’ve been to bigger shows, but for partners Christopher and Gregory Montalbano – the road warriors of Long Island medical-product innovation – this was as good…
South Nassau, Mount Sinai Health System talk merger
BY GREGORY ZELLER // A potential alliance between a nearly century-old Long Island hospital and one of New York’s largest health systems is in the works. The directors of South…
New healthcare podcast gets a leg up
The latest healthcare innovations, explored largely from the patient’s perspective, are the thrust of a new podcast series from Northwell Health. The New Hyde Park-based health system this week launched…
Northwell looks north with Syracuse affiliation
Northwell Health has picked up another one. The Board of Directors at Crouse Hospital, the backbone of a two-hospital, 3,300-employee health system based in Syracuse, has approved a clinical affiliation…
Pediatric kidney transplant a first for Cohen Children’s
The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center has completed its first-ever pediatric kidney transplant operation. Matthew Francis, a 14-year-old from Rockaway Beach, was diagnosed in 2012 with focal segmental…
Feinstein, TheraSource target sepsis, with NIH’s help
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a little help from the besieged National Institutes of Health, a pillar of Long Island-based scientific research and one of its shining biotech spinoffs are…
New partnership spotlights Northwell orthopedics
Northwell Health has signed a strategic affiliation agreement with the Rothman Institute, one of the nation’s largest orthopedic practices. The Northwell Health Orthopaedic Institute will be working with the Pennsylvania-based…
It’s artery-hardening work, but NYIT is up to the task
Researchers at the New York Institute of Technology are closing in on a new way of measuring atherosclerosis – a hardening of the arteries that serves as an early warning…
Cohen children’s launches space-age MRI suite
A $10 million donation from the Children’s Medical Fund of New York will send the youngest patients at the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center into space. The gift…
Feinstein researchers eye brain-tumor breakthrough
A common medication used to treat parasitic infections could leapfrog to the top of medical science’s brain-cancer arsenal. Pure scientific research funded by federal grants has led to this potential…