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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.

Master Strokes

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.

12 Drinks of Christmas

Your holiday party will be a hit when you serve up these colorful cocktails— alcohol-free ones included.

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.

Dining Decisions Made Easy

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

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,”

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.

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.

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