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Health News
Sep 07, 2008
Agency will gain if Giants score TDs
A Paramus-based social services agency would net thousands of dollars if the Giants manage to duplicate the magic of their Super Bowl season..
Rutgers to see if N.J. lifestyle causes cancer
New Jersey could be harmful to your hormones, say scientists launching a program to study social and environmental links to glandular disease.
Feds probe patient rights at psych center
TRENTON - State Human Services officials say the U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether a southern New Jersey psychiatric hospital violated patients' rights.
Sep 06, 2008
Hackensack EMTs seek judge's ruling on layoffs
HACKENSACK - Lawyers for the city's EMTs argued Friday that the city's agreement with Hackensack University Medical Center to privatize daytime ambulance services violated contract laws and should be struck down.
Sep 05, 2008
Lead-tinged turf field reopens in Ridgefield
RIDGEFIELD - Willis Field has reopened.
Business briefs
Bio-Reference has record quarter
Sep 04, 2008
Stores selling expired baby formula, drugs?
Lawsuits filed today allege that Drug Fair, Wal-Mart and Target sold infant formula and non-prescription drugs with expired sell-by dates at dozens of New Jersey locations.
Sep 03, 2008
Prenatal care in NJ failing
New Jersey ranks near the bottom of the nation when it comes to prenatal care — and the trend is worsening.
New study: No link between vaccine and autism
A study by Columbia University today is the latest to find no link between autism and a common childhood vaccine, news that should reassure concerned parents, experts said.
Lipitor ads running, without a celebrity
TRENTON - Television ads for the world's top-selling drug, cholesterol fighter Lipitor, are back, six months after Pfizer Inc. pulled them amid charges that its use of a celebrity doctor endorser who's never practiced medicine misled the public.
Sep 02, 2008
MoleSafe USA
Owners: RKS Inc., an investment group led by managing partner Dr. Richard Bezozo, in partnership with MoleMap of New Zealand.
Is there a risk?
More parents are fearing the effects of the chemicals in required vaccines on their young children.
First job: Raise money
New to red cross, but a vet with relief efforts
Gene may make men worse bet as hubbies
Men are more likely to be devoted and loyal husbands when they lack a particular variant of a gene that influences brain activity, researchers announced Monday - the first time that science has shown a direct link between a man's genes and his aptitude for monogamy.
Aug 31, 2008
Whooping cough cases raise concern
PITTSBURGH - Medical officials in Pittsburgh said staff members and some patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital are getting preventive treatment for whooping cough after an outbreak was traced to several workers at an outpatient clinic.
New edict for preschools
Thousands of New Jersey toddlers must now get flu and pneumonia shots to attend preschool or licensed day-care centers.
Aug 30, 2008
Fort Lee man takes guilty plea in body parts scheme
Michael Mastromarino, 44, a former dental surgeon, admitted to hundreds of counts of abusing corpses, forgery, theft and other allegations.
Needles found on shore close down more beaches
Medical debris continued to pose problems for the start of Labor Day weekend along some Cape May County beaches.
Avalon, Ocean City beaches reopened
Beachgoers in Cape May County may have to worry about rain today — but local officials say there shouldn't be any more needles.
Toddlers must get flu shots for preschool
The new state rule, the first in the nation, takes effect Monday. Parents have until Dec. 31 to get their children vaccinated.
Aug 29, 2008
Needle find closes Ocean City beach
OCEAN CITY - There's been another beach closing in Cape May County due to medical waste.
Nursing homes stealing rebate checks from elderly?
The state's Public Advocate is also investigating reports of tax preparers charging $100 to fill out a simple form to get the rebates.
Aug 28, 2008
TV ad warns that hot dogs can be deadly
CHICAGO - A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: "I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer."
Third football player hurt this week ruptured his spleen
A friend of the Hawthorne High School varsity player says he's going to be in the hospital for a week.
Study: 1 in 8 wells contaminated
The state Environmental Protection Department examined over 51,000 well tests conducted between September 2002 and April 2007.
Cell makeover may mean cures
WASHINGTON - Scientists have transformed one type of fully developed adult cell directly into another inside a living animal, a startling advance that could lead to cures for a plethora of illnesses and sidestep the political and ethical quagmires that have plagued embryonic stem cell research.
Caring jesters
Pediatric patients at Hackensack University Medical Center were cheered by a Carnival Day featuring clowns, juggling, candy and magic tricks.
Aug 27, 2008
Letters for Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
Letters on high-powered police weaponry, AIDS epidemic, violent movies and legal perils of crossing railroads tracks.
Aug 26, 2008
Young athletes who were suddenly stricken
A national registry has documented more than 1,900 cases of sudden death among young athletes since 1985. Here's a sampling.
Franklin Lakes physician sees devotion as key
Dr. Magda Eraiba measures patients' progress by leaps and inches.
Lowdown on caffeine highs
Too much caffeine can be a bad thing. The central nervous system can be overstimulated into a state called caffeine intoxication.
To preserve Medicare, protect access to doctors
Payments to health care providers are not the cause of Medicare's financial problems. To preserve health care for seniors, the nation needs a better repayment schedule to doctors who provide the care.
Aug 23, 2008
Death rates
Statistics from July 2006 through June 2007:
Heart attack patients do best at Englewood
Patients had a better chance of surviving a heart attack than at any other hospital in New Jersey, according to the latest information.
Aug 22, 2008
Hospital rejects source for saving psych program
Officials at St. Mary's Hospital say "other urgent projects" have taken precedence over keeping open their inpatient psych unit -- a decision that will affect thousands of mentally ill patients in Passaic and Bergen. |
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