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.
This months Win It: You'll catch great ZZZs on a luxury organic mattress from Urban Natural Home Furnishings. Their sleep experts will tailor-fit you to a mattress that is most comfortable and promotes proper spinal alignment!
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
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.
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.
Sometimes certain ethnic groups face particular health conditions. Heightened awareness-and screening- can help combat this scourge of the Asian community.
Lauren Hirschmann, 13, is a typical teen. You’d never know that when she was born, she spent 96 days in Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), fighting for her life.
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.
American craft distillers are pioneering some delicious variations on the classic botanical spirit. This summer, ditch the tonic, which would overpower the delicate flavors, and add fresh fruit or herbs to your glass.
Feeling lucky? Now's your chance to create the outdoor oasis of your dreams with the expert help of an award-winning landscape designer from Sponzilli.
To dine in Spain's capital is to dive into a wonderland of foods and flavors. You need to visit its wonderfully civilized capital. And if you’re smart, you’ll arrive hungry: your favorite Madrid Meal may be in a place you discover for yourself.
“I turned,” says BrIan Ganton Jr., “and immediately knew I shouldn’t have.” When pain relievers, steroids and narcotics didn't work, the 51-year old turned to a neurosurgeon to repair his slipped disk.
Most people find it difficult to imagine themselves someday needing long-term care. But it’s a fact that as modern medicine helps us live longer, more and more of us reach a stage when daily help becomes a necessity. Insurance you buy today could make your life easier in years to come.
We’ve all heard about migraine headaches, but is everything we’ve heard on the level? June is National Migraine Awareness Month; test your knowledge with this quiz
Ever since his 1965 cover photo for LIFE magazine, Peter Max has painted six US presidents, music idols, a World's Fair mural and a super jet. Here, the artist talks about his craft, his recipe for a balanced life and what he can't live without.
"The objects, color and materials around us actually have a physical effect on us and how we feel." Thanks to the initiative of a former patient and her friend, cancer care will soon take place in a soothing new space.
“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” calls the voice in the classic tv commercial. Most of us have seen it, and maybe we’ve even made fun of it. But the fact is, falls will become not a laughing matter but a serious threat to our mobility and independence.
The Saint Barnabas Living Donor Institute is designed to promote living donation with minimally invasive surgery and better communication among donor registries, allowing David Darby to donate his kidney to a stranger so that his brother could get one too.
Thanks to Leon and Toby Cooperman and their historical gift, The Cooperman Family Pavilion will soon be built with Saint Barnabas Medical Center's largest donation ever.
