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Greenport’s Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital is getting innovative in its fight against food insecurity through a partnership with Food Rescue US North Fork.

As a demographic, American men haven’t been doing great for some time. Men are nearly four times more likely to die by suicide than women. Between 2020 and 2021, data show an 8% uptick in suicides for young men of ages 15-24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

When it comes to weight loss, “there is no question that ketosis does work in the short term,” Dr Konstantinos Spaniolas, associate director of the Stony Brook Metabolic and Bariatric Weight Loss Center in New York.

A young unvaccinated child is the first confirmed measles case in Nassau County since 2019 and the third case in New York State this year, according to county and state health officials.

This event is a dedicated space for healthcare professionals, allies, and the LGBTQ* community to delve into the nuances of LGBTQ* healthcare.

Health system executives are making strategic pivots in response to increasing costs, staffing shortages, emerging technology, competition for patients and a trend toward consumerism.

Susmita Pati, MD, encourages health systems to take a cue from performance arts. For the past few years, the chief of the division of primary care pediatrics at Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medicine and chief medical program adviser for the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science has helped develop a communications workshop based on improv principles.

Stony Brook University Hospital is working on a new way for patients to get what the doctor ordered. Over the past six months, the hospital has been rolling out a DoorDash-style food app, which curates options for each patient from the hospital kitchen’s menu and streamlines meal delivery.

Emily Mastaler, the former president and CEO of River Hospital in Alexandria Bay, N.Y., will take the position of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s chief administrative officer on May 20, according to a Stony Brook Medicine press release.

Families and experts said knowing precisely when a person battling early or mild stages of dementia should give up the keys is complicated. The disease develops and progresses at different rates, making the decision highly personalized, according to medical experts.