Closing a Hospital Ends a Medical Community
By M. Zakir Sabry, MD For a good four-plus years, I avoided the West Village, the same way I avoided the ICU room at the […]
ER Care and Urgent Care—Mutually Exclusive?
Many thanks for your article “Are You Having A Heart Attack?” in your October 2016 issue. How come hospitals are not providing BOTH ER care […]
Weak Enforcement Lets Hospital Call the Shots
By George Capsis Just before we went to press, Carol Yost, who is very good at catching stuff, sent me an email from Anthony Feliciano, […]
Joy’s Senior Seasonal Nutrition Buy of the Month
By Joy Pape November is New York’s local harvest month, which focuses on seasonal vegetables. Many of these vegetables are my favorites and also my […]
What is Happiness?
By Christina Raccuia What do we need to be happy? Although specific requirements for happiness are based on the individual, there are certain primal needs […]
Joy’s Senior Travel Tips
By Joy Pape The holidays are upon us, which means that many people are planning trips to visit family and friends in the upcoming months. […]
Are You Having a Heart Attack?
By Justin Matthews & Andreea Ioana Pantor (With contributions by Dr. David Kaufman, MD) If, while reading this, you develop persistent pain in your chest, neck, […]
A Growing Healthcare Hub
While walking down 7th Avenue, your readers may wonder, “What exactly is that gleaming, white, ship-shaped building towering over the street?” You may notice the […]
Joy’s Senior Seasonal Nutrition Buy of the Month
By Joy Pape As vegetables and fruits come into season, they offer seniors the tastiest and most nutritional buys for their money. October’s harvest is […]
Face the Fear and It Will Disappear (Part Two)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia Last month, we explored the nature of anxiety, panic, and the symptoms associated with those conditions. In this segment, we look […]
West Village Gets Top Diagnostic Center
By George Capsis It was two o’clock in the morning when Maggie discovered, that with blood thinners to avoid a blockage in a newly-implanted heart […]
Northwell Health Imaging at Lenox Health Greenwich Village Opens
Northwell Health Imaging at Lenox Health Greenwich Village opened its brand new state-of-the-art, 13,000-square-foot imaging center on August 2, 2016 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Patients […]
A Tour of Lenox Health Greenwich Village’s New Northwell Health Imaging Center
By Caroline Benveniste George and I visited the Lenox Health Greenwich Village facility on August 25th, about a month after the opening of their new […]
LGBT Community Center Highlights Outsider Artists with HIV
By Leslie Adatto AIDS began its tsunami of devastation in 1981 in our West Village neighborhood. Thirty-five years later, also in our neighborhood, is one […]
Joy’s Top 5 Nutrition Tips for Seniors
By Joy Pape 1. Eat the right amount. You may wonder what that is. It differs for everyone. The right amount has to do with […]
Face the Fear and It Will Disappear (Part One)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia Anxiety is often driven by anticipation. Try not to indulge thoughts about what could happen. Allow your thoughts to focus on […]
Dr. Kaufman Offers Hospital Entry Plan
This could be our new hospital: Dr. David Kaufman recommends that the 15th Street Cancer Center, originally built by St. Vincent’s Hospital, be extended three […]
Dr. Kaufman—A Man I Truly Admire
I just read the well written and thoroughly researched article by Dr. David Kaufman in the July issue. He expertly articulated how the loss of […]