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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.

Savory Soups

What other food category is more variable and convivial? In any season, but particularly when that first autumn nip is in the air, soup can be a hearty warm-up and salve for the soul. What could be a tastier excuse for friends or neighbors to gather?

Dining Decisions Made Easy

Morris and Essex counties’ delicious selections of dining destinations have just become a little bit tastier.

Fabulous Fennel

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

Home for the Holidays

Have a festive recipe or story you want to share? Let us know and you may be featured in the upcoming Holiday issue of Bergen Health and Life magazine!

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.

Is Our Food Safe?

In the past two decades, food manufacturers have introduced genetically modified organisms. Now, controversy has come to dinner.

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.

What's Your Number?

Have you checked your credit score lately? This numerical rating can determine whether or not you’ll be approved for a loan or mortgage and what interest rate you’ll pay. Here are 5 ways to make sure it's a good one.

What's Your Number?

Have you checked your credit score lately? This numerical rating can determine whether or not you’ll be approved for a loan or mortgage and what interest rate you’ll pay. Here are 5 ways to make sure it's a good one.