St. James small business combats county code
By Chris Mellides
Housed in a building that was originally a vaudeville theater built in the early 1900s, Uniquely Natalie is a St. James-based consignment...
Obesity: the growing threat
Holidays are when many people add pounds. With that in mind, let’s start off with a quiz to test your knowledge of obesity-related issues....
CSHL’s Zachary Lippman creates tomato tool kit
Imagine a pizza restaurant. Every day, the chef cooks a certain number of pies. At a specific point, the kitchen reaches a maximum. What...
Bellone backtracks on county speeding cameras
By Chris Mellides
Suffolk County is putting the brakes on its speed camera project.
County Executive Steve Bellone announced at a press conference Monday that he would...
Osteoporosis: confusing and surprising results
The prevalence of osteoporosis is increasing especially as the population ages. Why is this important? Osteoporosis may lead to increased risk of fracture due...
Private groups fund research into rare childhood cancer
This group will not let pain or loss defeat them. Instead, they are banding together to fight a common enemy.
Several foundations, the Friends of...
Stony Brook’s Saltz uses math to combat cancer
Joel Saltz lives in a world of numbers. The first chairman of biomedical informatics at Stony Brook recently hit a number that will help...
Exercise: medical benefits versus weight loss
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,...
BNL’s Pleier takes next steps after Higgs-boson
While the United States was celebrating Independence Day two years ago, a group of people were cheering the discovery of something they had spent...
The seriousness of falls and how to prevent them
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...
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