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The Huntington Assembly of God will be the site of breast cancer screenings on June 2 using the Stony Brook Cancer Center’s Mobile Mammography Van. The screening is cosponsored by State Sen. Mario R. Mattera and the NAACP Huntington. It is scheduled for 10 a.m. Read More …
Suburban Hospital Alliance of NYS president/CEO Wendy Darwell looks at how hospitals fared in the final 2023 – 2024 state budget. From increased Medicaid rates to an absence of codified workforce flexibilities, the budget offers wins and losses. Read More …
A Half Hollow Hills family whose daughter suffered an allergic reaction to peanuts while attending her junior prom say adults on scene accused her of using drugs. Arianna Varghese, 17, said her throat closed up after she took a bite of a cookie at the Read More …
Students walked, skipped and ran around the grounds of the Silas Wood Sixth Grade Center on Thursday, all part of an effort to support a teacher and her son, who contends with a rare medical condition. Ginny Stair, an English teacher at Silas Wood, her Read More …
A flag marking a year-long campaign to encourage organ donation was raised at Huntington Town Hall Tuesday. Two town employees, one celebrating the anniversary of his heart transplant, and another awaiting a kidney donation, spoke about their experiences and the need for more donations in Read More …
Dr. Raman Kevin Madan writes that there are easy ways to help prevent the likelihood of skin cancer by consistently protecting our skin from the sun’s harmful rays and seeing a dermatologist regularly to detect changes in our skin over time. Read More …
Student Ceci Lucia talks about mental health issues in a podcast produced by Cold Spring Harbor High School students. Lucia, 14, notes that coming out of the Covid-19 epidemic, students are reporting more challenges with the state of their mental health. She also hosts Read More …
New York’s baseball and softball fields will soon fill with children firing off fast balls and sliding into bases. And straining shoulders, spraining ankles, and breaking noses, too. Emergency rooms treat more than 120,000 baseball and softball injuries annually, researchers say. But many can be Read More …
Dr. Eve Krief writes that preventing initiation of vaping in the first place is critical to preventing addiction to nicotine and a snowball effect toward the use of other substances. Read More …
It was head-shaving time Wednesday afternoon at Walt Whitman High School as teachers, parents and students lined up to contribute their hair to support the fight against childhood cancer. St. Baldrick’s Day brings out volunteers willing to give up their hair in exchange for sponsors Read More …