Poll: Most Long Islanders avoid the naughty list in 2024
By GREGORY ZELLER // Don’t believe all that noise about New Yorkers being a nasty lot – it’s a bunch of hogwash, according to the latest Mount Sinai South Nassau…
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Concepts of a crisis as GOP targets Obamacare, again
By TERRY LYNAM // Except for abortion, healthcare has largely been a back-burner issue for most of the 2024 presidential campaign. The only time it came up during the Sept….
State nod marks another win for ‘precision medication’
By GREGORY ZELLER // An accomplished Long Island biotech with a penchant for polymerase chain reaction-based DNA technologies has earned state approvals for a cutting-edge pharmacogenomic testing service. Pharmacogenomics, the…
Zucker School aids special-ops vets on medical mission
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s leading medical schools is on a special mission to help elite U.S. soldiers transition from theaters of war to the front lines…
Challenges, opportunities abound across RE sectors
By PATRICK FOGARTY // The real estate industry is in flux – but there are significant opportunities across all sectors. Investment strategies must be revisited, reimagined and redeveloped to succeed…
Healthcare High: Straight to work (and the middle class)
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s “Fame” meets “ER” as Northwell Health prepares to open the region’s first-ever Healthcare High. The New Hyde Park-based healthcare system is uniting with Bloomberg Philanthropies…
Costs, questions rise as investors take over healthcare
By TERRY LYNAM // For many, trust in the family doctor runs deep – we routinely turn to them first, whenever we’re sick or concerned about symptoms that might signal…
Future docs (maybe) shine in Zucker School pipelines
By GREGORY ZELLER // Economically disadvantaged students are getting a leg up on their college careers – and honing their life-saving skills – through the Donald & Barbara Zucker School…
As AI evolves, the battle for control begins in court
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // In a haunting scene from 1968’s iconic “2001: A Space Odyssey,” sentient computer HAL 9000 turns off two astronauts’ life-support systems so it can assume…
Brick-and-mortar finds a spot in an e-commerce world
By MELISSA NAEDER // Service Merchandise, which is all e-commerce now but came to life as a unique 20th Century catalog showroom, was way ahead of its time. The term…
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…
Top techsperts carry CEWIT 2022 back to school
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University’s season of colossal conferences continues next week, and this time, the future of … well, everything … is on the line. Just weeks…
Healthcare transparency: More than just a data dump
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Imagine finding out that you have cancer via a text message while barreling down the Northern State Parkway. I did. It was a Friday, April 1,…
Northwell startup stakes $100M for health tech, equity
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health has added another economic-development engine to its impressive collection. Already busily commercializing research and generating early-stage enterprises through its Northwell Ventures and Northwell Holdings…
Balanced Hochul shoots for the moon in FY2023 plan
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you liked Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2022 State of the State Address, you’ll likely love her roughly $200 billion Fiscal Year 2023 Executive Budget. But don’t…