Author: Claire Reed, Managing Editor
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Hatikvah International Academy Charter School, East Brunswick
Hatikvah International Academy Charter School in East Brunswick offers New Jersey parents an opportunity to send their children to a free, public, secular school with a partial-immersion foreign language program in modern Hebrew. The school is a high performing K-7 program (opening eighth grade in 2017) inclusive of children from all backgrounds, needs, nationalities and…
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Oh baby, it’s cold outside: cold weather workout clothing
By Joe Stein Someone once told me that for every day the average temperature falls below 25 degrees, a person’s waistline will increase one-eighth of an inch. An urban myth created by a personal trainer? Who knows? But it does seem that just when we need to work off our holiday weight gain, the mercury…
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Oncology team performs two of N.J.’s first medical tourism HIPEC surgeries for peritoneal surface malignancies
Complex state-of-the-art method reduces cancer extent and delivers heated chemotherapy drugs directly to cancer cells in the abdomen Itzhak Avital, M.D., M.B.A., chairman, department of surgery at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, and his team have completed two of the region’s first medical tourism-based cytoreductive (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapies (HIPEC), or CRS- HIPEC…
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A robot named ‘Trudy’ comes to JFK Medical Center
Imagine walking the halls of the JFK Medical Center in Edison and seeing a robot coming out of an empty hospital room, beeping out “All Clean!” and then moving down the corridor to another room. Would it feel like you’re in a science fiction movie? At JFK, it’s not an imaginary future; it’s reality at…
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How do I know if my school-age child has social skill challenges?
By Alyssa Brennan, MOT By this stage of the school year, children in first through third grades should be settled in their classroom routine. While some students are experiencing a full-day learning environment for the first time, older children are more acclimated into the educational and social structure of their environment. Parents are eager to…
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There is a natural relief for headache sufferers
Nine out of 10 Americans suffer from headaches. Headaches/migraines can significantly diminish a person’s quality of life. They can prevent you from working, playing, spending quality time with family, and worse yet, can be an indication of more serious health problems. At Infinity Health and Wellness, headaches are one of the most common conditions they’ve…
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Physical therapy a good first choice before surgery for rotator cuff tears
By Dr. Leonard J. Somarriba, D.P.T, C.S.C.S. and Dr. John Scafidi, P.T, D.P.T, FAAOMPT Why get surgery if you don’t need it? Those who experience nontraumatic rotator cuff tears, for example, would do just as well with “conservative treatment” such as physical therapy. That’s according to a study published in Bone and Joint Journal (“Treatment…
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Supervised exercises help with knee osteoarthritis
By Jerry Moczerniuk P.T., D.P.T. A recently updated review of research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine revealed that participants with knee osteoarthritis (OA), who completed exercise programs, experienced a moderate improvement in pain and physical function, a result taking comparable to pain and anti-inflammatory drugs. Arthritis is a term defined simply as…
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Avoid food poisoning by keeping listeria under control
By Sandra Arango-Fahmy, M.D. Ice cream and octopus salad, hummus and organic mangoes were just a few foods recalled by the Food and Drug Administration in New Jersey during the past year due to listeria contamination. Listeria, or listeriosis, is a serious infection usually caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, according…
