Trip advisor: As ‘shrooms soar, proceed with caution
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // If mere mention of “magic mushrooms” brings you back to blacklight posters, lava lamps and the rhythmic snare drum of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” you’re not…
Icahn School of Medicine
Albany pumps $40M into biotech commercialization
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news for Long Island’s impressive biotech-research corridor: New York State has opened a new Biodefense Commercialization Fund designed to speed promising life-science research to market….
Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
South Nassau smartens up with Mudra lecture series
By GREGORY ZELLER // Strengthening its hand as a teaching hospital, South Nassau Communities Hospital will host an annual medical-education lecture series focused on research and innovation. The Mudra Foundation:…
South Nassau, Mount Sinai eye internal-med residencies
By GREGORY ZELLER // Thirty physicians will receive specialty training in a new Internal Medicine Residency Program at South Nassau Communities Hospital. South Nassau has received approval from the Accreditation…
South Nassau, Mount Sinai make it (almost) official
By GREGORY ZELLER // South Nassau Communities Hospital and the Mount Sinai Health System have officially tied the knot (if the state says OK). After a courtship that lasted the…
No. 257: Kids at work, cereal milk and crack pie, doing the math and selling Dylan’s guitar
A happy end of the week: Welcome once again to Friday, dear readers. While many of you are enjoying the start of a three-day weekend, please remember that doesn’t excuse…
First-ever ‘health systems marketplace’ comes to LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // The tri-state region’s first “marketplace of health systems” has come to Long Island. New York City-based Brighton Health Plan Solutions – which allows members to shop…
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…
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…
Stony Brook Medicine, Mount Sinai Health team up
Academic synergies and accelerated discoveries are the promise of a new research collaboration pairing Stony Brook Medicine and the Mount Sinai Health System. Stony Brook University and New York City-based…