A giant step on the road to precision medicine
By GREGORY ZELLER // This is your brain. This is your brain on antipsychotic medications. Any questions? Investigators at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, the R&D wing of the…
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Insurance plan, acquisitions boost NS-LIJ financials
More patients, the acquisition of two new hospitals and increased revenue from its health-insurance subsidiary helped the North Shore-LIJ Health System record a strong fiscal performance over the first half…
Cuomo: Your billions for Upstate are paying off
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took to the Huffington Post on Wednesday to extol what he called “irrefutable” evidence that Buffalo, Rochester and the rest of Upstate New York are on…
Thrill of victory, agony of defeat? There’s an app for that
By GREGORY ZELLER // In the land of earned-run averages, yards per game and double-doubles, there’s only one thing fans like more than sports. Statistics. Make that two things: A…
ExcelAire at 30: It’s been quite a ride
By GREGORY ZELLER // Overhauled business models, an industry-reshaping terror attack, a corporate takeover, shifting international regulations, ever-evolving technologies … nobody said 30 years would be easy. But they have…
LI Compost lands anaerobic digester project
One of New York State’s most innovative and ambitious sustainable-energy projects will be centered on Long Island. An anaerobic digester – which converts food waste, grass clippings and other organic…
Happe-ness is a grit-free beach drink
By GREGORY ZELLER // Inventor Jeanne Cilmi is not reinventing the wheel. But her Happe Holder still dreams big. Standing 8.5 inches tall on four sturdy legs, the portable, elevated…
Living it up on good news and positive thinking
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you’d suggested back in 2009 that “Live It Up!,” a kinda-web, sorta-television Long Island video magazine, would be seen in 25 countries and draw 100,000-plus…
State awards research funding to local hospitals
Three Long Island hospitals are among 26 statewide academic medical institutions receiving a total of $17.2 million in state research awards. The awards, announced Thursday, will be used to train…
Stony Brook Medicine welcomes largest-ever class
One-hundred-thirty-two first-year students received their first white coats this week – and, for the first time ever, complimentary stethoscopes – as the Stony Brook University School of Medicine welcomed its…
Political insight and advocacy, millennial style
By GREGORY ZELLER // There had to be a better way. That was the thinking shared by Jeff Guillot and Alex Voetsch. Both worked in political capacities – Guillot for…
The Debrief: David Calone, Jove Equity Partners
Chief executive of Setauket investment firm Jove Equity Partners, founder of the Long Island Emerging Technologies Fund, chairman of the Suffolk County Planning Commission, candidate for the U.S. House of…
Getting a leg up on physical therapy
By GREGORY ZELLER // You’re doing your physical therapy all wrong. That’s not a stretch, says Nassau BOCES physical therapist Mary Ann Malizia, who claims a common exercise performed daily…
Prototyping and production, right here on LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island tinkerers needn’t look to other domestic regions or overseas when they want to prototype or manufacture their designs – there are Island-based options that…
No strikeouts at LaunchPad NYIT pitch night
By GREGORY ZELLER // LaunchPad NYIT’s first pitch night was a hit. With an audience of about 100 packing the auditorium inside NYIT’s student innovation center, an entrepreneurial quintet –…