At Cohen, $10M and much-less-scary MRIs
A $10 million pledge from one of its top contributors will bring a unique, child-friendly MRI system to the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center. The New Hyde Park…
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Northwell hospitals target pulmonary embolisms
Southside Hospital is now busting up blood clots with new tech that promises to shorten treatment time and reduce potential complications. Joining several sister hospitals throughout the Northwell Health system,…
SBU marks a Duchenne muscular dystrophy first
A grassroots foundation has helped Stony Brook Children’s Hospital open Greater New York’s first center dedicated to Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne syndrome, or Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is a common and…
Northwell cuts ribbon on liver-disease center
Northwell Health has raised the curtain on a new Manhasset facility dedicated to diseases of the liver. The health system officially opened the Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases…
Northwell, Stony Brook Med strike cardio deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // A state-of-the-art cardiac-care practice will lend three decades of expertise, more than a dozen heart specialists and a boatload of East End patients to Long Island’s…
NIH pumps $3M into Feinstein autism study
The National Institutes of Health will fund a two-year Feinstein Institute for Medical Research study exploring risk factors behind autism spectrum disorders in newborns. A $3 million NIH grant has…
Canon USA pumps $40M into Mass.-based biotech
By GREGORY ZELLER // Melville-based imaging giant Canon USA has reaffirmed its commitment to the healthcare sector, to the tune of $40 million. That’s how much the global imaging-solutions provider…
Feinstein eyes bioelectronic BP breakthrough
A new study by the head of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research may open the door to bioelectronic treatments for hypertension and high blood pressure. In a study published…
Appointments pump up SBU cardiovascular team
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Stony Brook University School of Medicine has added some heavy cardiovascular muscle. Joanna Chikwe, a professor at the Mount Sinai Health System’s Icahn School of…
Northwell’s new-look ER dazzles in Bay Shore
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s 30,000 square feet bigger and renovations have cost about $60 million to date, but the Bohlsen Family Emergency Department at Southside Hospital isn’t done growing…
Commercialization grant backs brain-scan study
The National Science Foundation is backing a Long Island academic-private partnership looking to turn functional magnetic-resonance imaging technologies into new weapons against brain disease. Farmingdale-based ALA Scientific Instruments and Dr….
Southside Hospital adds emergency helipad
A new helipad at Bay Shore’s Southside Hospital is adding some lift to Northwell Health’s regional emergency services. Already counted among the American Hospital Association’s “Most Wired” IT-savvy hospitals, Southside…
Super-scrubs: Northwell fights the forces of infection
They don’t come with capes or cowls, they’re not powered by an indestructible “arc reactor” and they can’t shrink surgeons to ant-size, but new super-suits are making heroic impressions on…
Sloan Kettering facility green-lighted
The Hempstead Town board approved a site plan for Memorial Sloan Kettering’s proposed $140 million outpatient treatment and research facility at Mitchel Field as part of the so-called Nassau Hub…
Northwell, Mayo Clinic tackle painkiller epidemic
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health will join the Mayo Clinic and one of the nation’s largest medical schools on a three-year study targeting painkiller addictions. Citing “a growing epidemic…