01.21.2015 Health East End Health Alliance in limbo as Southampton, SBU plan merger Despite news that Southampton Hospital is one step closer to merging with Stony Brook University Medical Center, officials of the East End Health Alliance say their association with the...
10.23.2014 Health & Environment ELIH may go the way of Stony Brook or North Shore-LIJ Officials from Stony Brook Medical Center and North Shore-LIJ medical care systems confirmed reports Thursday that they are in affiliation talks with both Peconic Bay Medical Center and Eastern...
04.27.2014 Health Health Column: Yes, there’s help for those varicose veins Shorts and flip-flops are almost mandatory components of the summer wardrobe. But those dealing with hard-to-conceal varicose veins are often left sweating in long pants. Doctors say understanding the...
01.11.2014 Columns Column: Nobody we’d rather have in the room When you’re an editor of a local newspaper, you expect to meet readers in all sorts of places; the grocery store, schools and libraries are the most common among...
10.27.2013 Community Hospital staff shoots video to win cancer research funds Stony Brook Medicine needs your vote to help raise funds supporting breast cancer research. For the third year in a row, the teaching hospital has entered a video featuring...
04.20.2013 Health Consumer Reports ranks local hospitals top in county Known for rating everything from cars to cribs, Consumer Reports released updated hospital safety ratings last month, giving two East End health care facilities the highest scores in the...
04.17.2013 News After misdiagnoses, 7-year-old is treated for Kawasaki disease Dina Reilly knew something was wrong when her daughter, who was suffering from a 104-degree fever, broke out in a mysterious rash over most of her body. But doctors,...