High hopes (but not dry) in Feinstein drug/booze center
By GREGORY ZELLER // To properly study the effects of booze, weed and other drugs on behavioral health and neurological impairment, the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research would like to…
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No. 1031: Earning honors, patents and income tax credits – and maybe a fresh-baked croissant, too
Please … no nor! Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but the last Friday of super-snowy January 2026 – yes, the New Year’s blustery first…
ICE backlash threatens bipartisan public-health revival
By TERRY LYNAM // The long-simmering debate over the future of federal health spending – including Obamacare subsidies – has been largely overshadowed by the Trump Administration’s pursuit of Greenland…
No. 1030: In which clean water flows, digital privacy is protected and it finally stops snowing (for now)
Calm between the storms: Well done, intrepid innovators! You survived Long island’s heaviest snowstorm in years – and yeah, there’s another titanic winter storm brewing for this coming weekend,…
Small device, big win at Northwell’s Bass Heart Hospital
By GREGORY ZELLER // The world’s smallest defibrillator lead is now in play at Northwell Health. Cardiologists at North Shore University Hospital’s Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital have implanted the…
No. 1022: On bartenders, blue jeans and some badly needed senior rentals, plus Santa before Santa was cool
Holiday rush: Better get cracking, intrepid innovators! The first workweek of December is wrapping up, leaving only 20 more days until Christmas – 19 shopping days, if you want…
No. 1017: Winter is coming – but AI-powered schools, pizza with the works and happy hour are already here!
Feel the heat: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we hurdle the hump of another late-Autumn workweek – complete with a brief but chilly Winter preview. Yes, Long Island,…
No. 1016: Intuiting Inuit culture, loving our lawyers, packing workforce pipelines – and the Buck starts here!
End, middle, start: Greetings, intrepid innovators, and congratulations on completing another busy workweek, reaching the middle of Autumn and starting another well-earned weekend. For those keeping score, it’s literally…
SNAP: As Congress lays down, Long Islanders step up
By TERRY LYNAM // When I was 20 years old, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I applied for and received food stamps for about a month. We’d just driven…
Feinstein master innovator earns invention immortality
By GREGORY ZELLER // A groundbreaking technology developed through clinical trials at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has been granted all-time honors by Time magazine. The Double Neural Bypass…
No. 1007: We need a hero (plus body positivity and organic waste recycling, and some pierogi wouldn’t hurt)
Cold truths: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we hurdle the hump of another busy workweek – and leap from what has been a delightful stretch of Summer-like weather…
No. 1004: Forty-two blue! Omaha! Omaha! Down! Set! Pancakes! Sway! Molloy! HR, FTC … hut, hut!
Huddle up: You’ve done it again, intrepid innovator! Another workweek conquered, another weekend earned, another chance to “enjoy” some New York football. Yes, even with rookie sensation Jaxson Dart…
No. 1,000: The more things change…
Welcome, intrepid innovators, to Wednesday and a landmark edition of your favorite innovation newsletter, and to a momentous day in Innovate Long Island history. It’s mindboggling that more than…
The poor prognosis of politicized public health
By TERRY LYNAM // The nation’s public-health professionals are in full-blown panic over the dumpster fire that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ignited within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…
No. 988: Dictators defeated, septic supported, sundaes savored – and enjoying life with old ‘Friends’
Take a moment: Welcome to Friday, intrepid innovators, and to the end of July, almost – by this time next week, it will be August already! Yes, the sultry…