Joel Saltz lives in a world of numbers. The first chairman of biomedical informatics at Stony Brook recently hit a number that will help...

With the holiday dinners right around the corner, what would be better topic to discuss than exercise? To quell our guilt about Thanksgiving-dinner indiscretions,...

While the United States was celebrating Independence Day two years ago, a group of people were cheering the discovery of something they had spent...

With winter’s icy conditions around the corner, our risk for falls is about to go up. When we were younger, falls usually did not...

Human mistakes occur everywhere, from a driver who runs a red light to a professional athlete who literally drops a ball, to an accountant...

I recently watched “The Caine Mutiny,” a wonderful 1954 film starring Humphrey Bogart. I encourage those who have not seen the movie to watch...

Picture a child on a bike circling the neighborhood. If the bike path has hills and valleys, the child needs to pedal harder to...

Last week, I wrote about factors that increase the risk of gallstones, an all-too-common GI problem. Many of these are modifiable. A logical extension...

Seeing isn’t just believing — it can also lead to understanding. David Jackson of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has developed a way to see...

By Linda M. Toga, Esq, At least once a week a new client who owns real property with someone else comes to my office with...