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“Monitoring the color of urine can provide valuable insight into hydration levels and potential health issues,” says Jason Kim, M.D., a member of the American Urological Association and an associate professor of urology and director of the Women’s Pelvic Health and Continence Center at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Stony Brook, New York.

Children with gender dysphoria will no longer receive puberty-suppressing hormones, also known as puberty blockers, as routine practice after an NHS England review concluded there was insufficient evidence for their safety and effectiveness.

A new study suggests boiling hard tap water for two to five minutes and then filtering it can remove nearly 80% of nanoplastics and microplastics present.

Searching for a top hospital in the state of New York? The Top Hospitals in New York 2024 as selected by Knowinsiders.com based on US News & Healthgrades List.

A new killer has emerged in the illegal drug market, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Synthetic opioids called nitazenes—as much as 20 times more potent than fentanyl—have infiltrated street drugs from heroin to benzodiazepines, catching unsuspecting users in a web of addiction and overdose death.

Long Island mother and grandmother Diana Bautista is hoping that by donating one of her kidneys to a stranger, she can save her daughter Brianna’s life.

Sleep is often mentioned when discussing keeping your heart healthy, and for good reason.

Hospitalized with COVID-19 in 2021, Guillermo Guzhnay Pauta was so weak and had so much trouble breathing that he did not think he would survive. A doctor talked to the family about home hospice care.

Those social distancing stickers may have faded and life for most people has gone back to normal since the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Within a few weeks of the March 11, 2020, declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, hundreds of New Yorkers were dying of the disease every day, and Long Island and New York City hospitals that were overflowing with patients put refrigerated trailers in parking lots to store the bodies of the dead.