Medical Malpractice Attorney from New York City Explains Importance, Early Detection – Treatment of Lung Cancer
In this informative piece,
. explains why the timely detection and treatment of lung cancer is so important to patients.  Mr. Sullivan also describes the catastrophic consequences of a failure to diagnose the disease, an omission that may be the basis for a medical malpractice action.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday, February 15th 2009, 1:25 AM
The struggling economy is working wonders for Bethenny Frankel. At least for her diet plan.
One of New York’s straight-shooting “Real Housewives,” she claims the secret to skinny is akin to financial planning in her new book, “Naturally Thin: Unleash Your Skinny Girl and Free Yourself From a Lifetime of Dieting” (Simon & Schuster, out March 2009). “It’s a no-more-dieting-forever book,” says Frankel, a natural-food Read the rest of this entry »

PARK SLOPE — Heart disease is not just a man’s condition. In fact, women are 10 times as likely to die from heart disease as from breast cancer. One in three females dies of heart disease, making it the number one killer of women in the United States.
As a women ages, her risk of developing serious heart conditions increases. In part, this is because the female body stops producing estrogen during the mid-life years. Heart disease rates Read the rest of this entry »

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
You drink diet soda, so you must be healthier. Right?
That’s what New York Gov. David Paterson is talking about with his proposal for an “obesity tax” — a 15 percent slap on non-diet sugary soft drinks. Think $1 for a Diet Coke, $1.15 for a Coke.
There’s just one problem: Studies have found links between drinking diet sodas and obesity and diabetes.
at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Read the rest of this entry »

In his first State of the State address, Governor David A. Paterson outlined his plan for a stronger New York including the need to confront the current fiscal crisis head on. He laid out a progressive policy agenda to help working families during these difficult times including calling for one of the most ambitious clean energy plans in the nation, setting a “45 by 15” goal that 45 percent of New York State’s electricity needs will be met through Read the rest of this entry »

Hackensack, NJ, October 30, 2008 –(
)– BayView Entertainment is proud to announce the first-time retail availability of two new DVDs from New York Times best-selling health and fitness author Joyce Vedral. The DVDs are scheduled to hit the street on December 2, 2008 from BayView Entertainment, one of America’s leading providers of fitness programming. These two new DVDs from one of the most admired and identifiable fitness personalities Read the rest of this entry »

. explains why a previous c-section increases the risk of uterine rupture during natural delivery, and outlines the precautions hospitals must take to ensure that uterine rupture does not occur.
Uterine rupture during vaginal birth after Cesarean Section (“VBAC”) is most closely associated with a failure of the scar from the prior delivery.  When the scar fails, its tissue separates or tears, injuring or rupturing the uterus in the process. Read the rest of this entry »

each year allows “thousands” of medical devices onto the market with “only cursory review and with no clear evidence that they help patients.” According to the
, physicians “are free to use those products as they see fit, without telling patients that the devices are not proved.”
“frequently” provides higher Medicare payments to physicians who use such products “as a way to compensate them for the extra time and expense of adopting new procedures,” Read the rest of this entry »

, Bill Berkowitz reports on the Christian right’s opposition to
Sen. Tom Daschle’s appointment as Secretary of the Department of Health and
Human Services:
“Tom Daschle is a disaster appointment, the opposite of a national protector
of health and human services,” Jill Stanek, the head of BornAliveTruth, the
anti-abortion group that ran advertisements against Obama during the election,
told the Catholic News Agency. “Daschle ardently supports Read the rest of this entry »

that found infants born via elective repeat Caesarean sections at around 37 weeks’ gestation — which is considered full term — were twice as likely to suffer complications as those born after 39 weeks’ gestation. In addition, the study — funded by the
— found that more than one-third of women who undergo elective c-sections chose to do so earlier than recommended medical guidelines. Alan Tita, lead author of the study and assistant professor Read the rest of this entry »