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What You Need to Know About Dental Implants

Dental implants (also called endosseous implants) are a component of a technique that replaces the tooth’s root with metal, screw-like posts and install a replica tooth that looks like the … more

Dr. Alina Bergan DDS | 6/11/19

City paid $600K in health costs for ineligible retirees

The City of Glen Cove paid nearly $491,000 in health premiums for six retirees who did not qualify for coverage based on their personnel files, according to a February audit by the Manhattan-based … more

By Alyssa Seidman | 6/6/19

Sam Balooch, of Sea Cliff, opened the Helix & Gene Wellness Center in Glen Head last month.

Transformative wellness center opens in Glen Head

Sam Balooch has had a fascination with fitness since he was four years old. Before moving to the U.S. from Iran at age nine, he would have his father buy him stacks of health and wellness magazines. … more

By Alyssa Seidman | 5/23/19

A plane departs from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, N.Y.

State reps. propose legislation to combat jet noise on Long Island

State Sen. Jim Gaughran and Assemblywoman Judy Griffin proposed a bill last week that would study the environmental and human health impacts of John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia … more

By Nakeem Grant and Alyssa Seidman | 5/23/19

Senators call for state probe into mercury vapor after element found at Cubs Cave in Merrick

The Merrick school District has closed the Cubs Cave —a multipurpose room at Levy Lakeside School — after elevated levels of mercury were found there, according to a letter sent to … more

By Anthony O'Reilly | 5/20/19

Health insurers count on our silence

I didn’t attend many funerals in my childhood. One that I recall was for the father of a close childhood friend. more

By Andrew Malekoff | 5/3/19

If only we knew now what we’ll know then

I saw a guy in town waiting under the portico of a medical practice that specializes in lung disease, and damn if he wasn’t puffing away on a cigarette. more

5/3/19

Last November, JUUL stopped selling its flavored products to retail distributors to help prevent underage use. It still, however, sells its tobacco and menthol-based products to them.

Rockville Centre Coalition for Youth persists to stop flavored JUUL sales

JUUL ended sales of its flavored pods — mango, crème, cucumber and fruit — to its retail distributors, which sell to brick-and-mortar stores, last November. However, the products are still being sold at some Rockville Centre convenient stores. more

By Briana Bonfiglio | 5/2/19

Officials from South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside appointed to Mount Sinai Health System boards

South Nassau Communities Hospital’s board of directors Chairman Joseph J. Fennessy and Vice Chairman Anthony Cancellieri have been appointed to the boards of trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System. more

5/1/19

Dani Frisch Harkin runs marathons and triathlons each year with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training.

South Side High School grad running through obstacles

Numerous surgeries haven’t stopped Rockville Centre native Dani Frisch Harkin, a Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor, from running marathons around the country. Actually, running saved her life, she said. more

By Briana Bonfiglio | 4/25/19

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