Health & Beauty Features

New Year, New You?

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.

Sending In The Clowns

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.

Fly with Confidence

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.

Hope for Fighting Dementia

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.

A Speedier E.R.

The emergency department at Saint Peter's University Hospital offers enhanced patient comfort—and faster treatment.

The Art of Gratitude

An illustrator and his wife are drawn to the joy of ‘giving back’—and brightening lives.

Medicine With Passion

Where does the inspiration to become a doctor stem from? Personal experiences put this clinician on a path to her destiny as a pediatric neurologist

Score One For Screening

A Watchung man owes his life to a free lung cancer screening program—even though his cancer wasn’t in the lung.

Fabulous Fennel

Discover the varied delights of fennel. This aromatic herb is a cancer fighter... and an antidote to humdrum menus.

Easing The Path For Cancer Patients

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,”

Sexually Active? Read This

It’s an STD epidemIc that not enough people know about. The human papillomavirus is common, potentially deadly—but also preventable.

Being Clear About Dense Breasts

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:

How Knowledge Beats Breast Cancer

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.

Botulism: A Danger to Babies

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.

Fabulous Fennel

You say you’ve discovered The varied delights of fennel? Don’t be too smug—Greek and Roman health practitioners beat you to it by more than two millennia. This aromatic herb is a cancer fighter... and an antidote to humdrum menus.

Sexually Active? Read This

It’s an STD epidemIc, but one that not enough people know about. The human papillomavirus is common, potentially deadly—but also preventable.

Quality Care Close To Home

Patients in the Florham Park and Morristown areas have long had access to Barnabas Health. What they haven’t had is a strong local network of Barnabas Health-affiliated primary care physicians—until now

Confronting A Crisis In Liver Disease

In the past decade, there has been an alarming increase in cases of liver disease including liver cancer. This menace is on the rise, but treatments are better than ever.

Cheers for Cherries

The cherry's got it all: handy size, pert round shape, ruby-red hue and a flavor so beloved it’s borrowed by everything from cola to cough drops. Not to mention health benefits galore.