• Your thyroid health: too much or too little?

    By Dr. Reema Patel The word thyroid in Greek means “shield shaped,” referring to the shape of the thyroid gland located in your neck.Thyroid is one of the hormone producing glands in the body.Thyroid disorders can range from a small, harmless goiter to thyroid cancer. According to recent research data, millions of people in the…

  • Zebrafish model is useful tool in identifying self-renewing properties of prostate cancer stem cells

    Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey demonstrates that using zebrafish to identify self-renewing tumor stem cells in prostate cancers may be more beneficial than using traditional experimental models when aiming to predict response to therapy. Prostate cancers are suggested to contain self-renewing tumor stem cells that have the ability to grow uncontrollably and…

  • 11 steps to looking better without breaking a sweat

    Quick fixes for skin, hair, makeup and style give an extra ego boost to encourage dieters By Dawn Klingensmith CTW Features It takes time to see results from exercise programs, skincare regimens and other lifestyle changes intended to make us look and feel our best.And while lifestyle changes are the best way to get and…

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    A snow-covered trail at Holmdel Park, Holmdel, provided solace for a lone walker on Jan. 22. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR

  • Resident says the governor should drive in traffic

    Since Gov. Chris Christie is behaving so poorly these days, why not take away the Jersey helicopter privileges until the investigations into the George Washington Bridge scandal are over? He could ride our highways to and from work in Trenton and park in the “non-bully” spot. And if he is done bullying our mayors, he…

  • Christie’s staff mirrored him in Bridgegate actions

    I f I were a citizen in New Jersey and had cast my vote for Chris Christie for his second term as governor of New Jersey, I would feel shortchanged over the Bridgegate scandal. This whole affair reminds me of Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal. President Nixon went on national television and stated he…

  • Plan to mandate pledge is waste of effort

    There is a move currently under way by our state Legislature to make the Pledge of Allegiance mandatory at all public meetings. Ironically, most of the bill’s loquacious supporters are the same sycophant politicians who huff and puff about the need to get government out of people’s lives. I think this legislation has far more…

  • Cannabis program ‘going to pot’

    With more than 1,400 patients signed up for the medical cannabis program in New Jersey since August 2012, many have yet to see access. Greenleaf Compassion Center, which was opened briefly and closed this summer, served only 140 patients the entire year. With one of the program qualifications being less than six months to live,…

  • Help prevent heart disease in women

    National Wear Red Day, designed to raise awareness in the fight against heart disease in women, is Feb. 7. Heart disease is often equated with being a “man’s disease,” but that is incorrect. It is the No. 1 killer in women. Yet only one in five American women believes that heart disease is her greatest…

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