Health

By Toby Rosewater  As a little boy, Fred Ellman accompanied his sick grandmother to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In her early 50s, she was already struggling with dementia.  “They called it hardening of the arteries,” Ellman said. The garden was

By Toby Rosewater A little over eight years ago, Dr. Vera Feuer worked in the emergency department at Cohen Children’s Medical Center on Long Island. In the waiting room, she saw a particular kind of patient come and go. Each

By Caroline Haviland A new national study warning of a major spike in childhood tooth decay, combined with a headline-making fluoride ban in Florida, is putting fresh focus on Yorktown’s decision last year to suspend fluoridation of its public water

By Tessa Wheeler Optum Health hosted a grand unveiling of its relocated Mount Kisco cardiology center on June 5, introducing a new facility with updated technology, streamlined patient care, and reorganized referral systems — as the company continues to face

By Abby Luby It’s 4:30 in the morning on a cool June day, and hundreds of people are scurrying around in the dark, pulling on blue “Break the Hold” T-shirts and sipping from water bottles. Candles are being lit, giving

By Elaine Clarke When Julie Mossberg-Kaplan, who lives in California, learned her mother was struggling to leave her Westchester apartment for routine medical appointments, the family felt stuck. Trips to the doctor became stressful, and coordinating care from across the

Residents Rally for Competitive Compensation as Contract Talks Continue By Ava McGinty Doctors from the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) held a rally outside Westchester Medical Center’s Valhalla campus on Tuesday, calling for progress in five-month-long contract negotiations. CIR,