According to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one American dies from stroke every four minutes. Thanks to medical and surgical advances however, more patients are surviving 'brain attacks' and regaining good health.
With a realistic approach, you can be trimmer and healthier in 2015. Deanna Schweighardt, outpatient dietitian at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, shares her three-steps towards a new you for the new year.
Being in the hospital is no laughing matter—especially for a child. But the sound of young laughter can be heard in the halls of Saint Barnabas Medical Center—when the “clown doctors” come in.
We all have our annoyances with airline travel, but if people have chronic breathing disorders, flying can actually be dangerous to their health. A breathing test can clear you for save air travel, even if you have a lung condition.
What’s your biggest worry When it comes to future health? For many adults, it is the loss of cognitive and physical function that comes with dementia. Though there's still no cure, medications now in trails may bring much-improved treatments.
Saint Barnabas’ transformed radiation oncology department now offers a more soothing atmosphere “to make the environment as peaceful as possible, to minimize the ‘hospital’ feeling and help the patient feel treated in a more holistic way,”
A law intended to inform women, which requires they be told when mammograms show dense breast tissue, has confused many instead. Here's what you need to know:
Some women are “100 percent convinced” they’ll get breast cancer. Others are confident they won’t. In reality, says the M. Michele Blackwood M.D., neither group can be sure.
The baby was in trouble, but it wasn’t clear why. Luckily Tyler's parents made the right call—sending him to the Emergency Department at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
