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At a conference in August, researchers from North Carolina State University demonstrated their latest technological advance in aiding “first responders” to peacetime and wartime disasters: cockroaches. Outfitting Madagascar hissing cockroaches...

Everyone will exhibit some kind of cognitive decline with advancing years. But the idea that we can shield ourselves from the most devastating brain diseases,Alzheimer's disease and dementia, is an intriguing prospect and an area of great interest to...

Kids who are allergic to foods can overcome their reactions through therapy that involves giving them increasing doses of the specific foods, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and other hospitals. The research adds to...

Landscapers working near a vacant lot in Mount Sinai called rescue services when they noticed a baby deer had fallen down a 20 foot manhole near Route 25A and Nesconset Highway. Emergency Service Officers Tobie Monaco, Billy Judge, Dan Coan and Walter...

Re. "Chick-fil-A supporters crowd local store (Aug. 2): Your article proclaiming that Chick-fil-A supporters came out "en masse" to support the company after its president said he believes in the religious definition of marriage is so disingenuous and...

Police on Long Island are investigating the death of a woman who was found in a submerged car in Port Jefferson Thursday morning. According to authorities, Suffolk county police officers responded to the Town of Brookhaven boat ramp, located at West...

All Jack Miller wants is for the pain to be more tolerable.    "I have peripheral neuropathy," Miller told about 125 people, many of them neurologists, two weeks ago at the J.W. Marriott at a symposium on the disease.    His fortune was helping pay...

The NYPD beefed up its presence around Mount Sinai Hopsital on the Upper East Side Wednesday afternoon. There was a good reason as to why more than 100 officers were gathering in courtyard at the hospital, Officer Eder Loor was coming home. The 28-year-...

It's not enough that we simply have to worry about the fat that's increasingly growing around our bellies. Americans should also be concerned about the fat that they can't see: the stuff that's filling up their livers, more commonly known as Nonalcoholic...

Dr. Luis Navarro, Director of The Vein Treatment Center in New York, NY, one of the most well-respected and established physicians in the country, has devoted his life's work to the treatment of venous disorders (varicose and spider veins). Formally...

The holiday season may bring about tidings of comfort and joy but headaches shouldn't be a part of ur celerbration, but in most cases it is, thanks to all the stress that comes with it. So, how do you prevent those headaches before they strike? New...

Dr. Mark I. Rossberg, a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Thursday of prostate cancer at his...