Poll reveals intriguing, disturbing weight loss ‘truths’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Weighty issues abound in the latest Mount Sinai South Nassau Truth In Medicine poll, which pounds home heavy physiological and psychological truths about weight loss. At…
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Northwell, manufacturing partner eye wellness brand
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York State’s largest healthcare provider is bulking up its already impressive commercialization efforts. New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health, also the state’s largest private employer, has…
Future cardiologists join pros on research front lines
By GREGORY ZELLER // A top Long Island medical school is collaborating with a leading cardiac institution on a unique mentoring opportunity with profound implications. The New York Institute of…
Mount Sinai South Nassau unveils ‘mass-casualty’ unit
By GREGORY ZELLER // A bustling Long Island hospital has completed the second phase of a $50 million Emergency Department expansion – just part of a larger $400 million strategic-growth…
For expectant (and new) moms, bots to be thankful for
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news, expectant women of Long Island: Artificially intelligent “pregnancy chatbots” are now taking appointments. To be clear, the intelligence is legit: The Northwell Health Pregnancy…
Rare accreditation is big news in war on Duchenne MD
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook Children’s Hospital has become a frontline fortress in the war against muscular dystrophy. The hospital’s East Setauket-based Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Comprehensive Care Center has…
Cutting-edge tech enables Veterans Day stroke save
By GREGORY ZELLER // An 80-year-old U.S. Army veteran is alive, well and feeling “lucky” after quick thinking – and a bevy of innovative technologies – saved his life on…
Northwell, Aegis break the ice with menopause startup
By GREGORY ZELLER // A $100 million regional collaboration committed to creating new healthcare startups is raising the bar on clinical menopause support. Northwell Holdings, New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health’s…
For Island preemies, a next-generation destination
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s most critically ill premature babies have a new state-of-the-art space to finish cooking. Northwell Health has cut the ribbon on a next-generation neonatal intensive…
Mental block: Poll reveals Island mental health ‘crisis’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Social studies continue to paint bleak portraits of Long Island’s mental health landscape. Just one week after Stony Brook Medicine’s Long Island LGBTQ+ Community Health Needs…
Medical assistant partnership puts the ‘earn’ in ‘learn’
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York State’s largest healthcare provider and the state’s busiest community college are teaming up to address increasing healthcare needs. It’s no surprise that demand for…
Northwell unveils $110M Pediatric Surgery Complex
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a $110 million resource that most Long Island parents will be glad is here – and all hope they never see. Cohen Children’s Medical Center…
‘Transformative’ Northwell lands on Google Cloud
By GREGORY ZELLER // A high-caliber partnership between New York’s largest healthcare provider and the planet’s preeminent search engine will advance clinician care, patient experiences and other critical healthcare avenues….
A FluidFM situation: Scientists on the single-cell edge
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University biologists are going with the flow at unprecedented cellular levels – a deep bio-engineering dive that could alter understanding of life’s very building…
Northwell, pained parents demand gun-violence action
By GREGORY ZELLER // The U.S. Congress appears ready to advance national gun-safety laws for the first time in decades – small steps that can’t come fast enough for Northwell…