New recommendations for mammograms are sure to cause both concern and confusion.

A federal panel is changing long-standing advice and now recommending that women wait until they are 50 to get a mammogram and then every two years—a big change from years of telling women to get a mammogram at age 40 and then every year.

If [...]

In an effort to prevent the spread of both seasonal and H1N1 flu, Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey is banning visitors under 18 from the hospital unless they have an appointment or need medical treatment.
In other steps designed to reduce the spread of the flu, the hospital is also asking patients not to [...]

The Promenade at Blue Hill, an assisted living and memory care facility, is offering a free memory screening as part of  national Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness month.
The screening is being held from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, at The Promenade, 582 Veterans Memorial Drive, Pearl River.
The event features a face-to-face screening, which takes five to [...]

The 19th Annual Nyack Hospital 10K Run and 5K Walk will take place Nov. 21.
Funds raised at the event will benefit the  Joint Replacement Center at Nyack Hospital.
The race will start at Nyack Hospital, loop around the village and end at the hospital. The event features computerized race results, spotters on the walk course, water [...]

New York state Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo  has reached an $875,000 settlement with the national retail pharmacy chain CVS to end its sale of expired products, including over-the-counter drugs, baby formula, milk, and eggs, at stores across New York State.

The settlement concludes the lawsuit previously filed by the attorney general in New York Supreme [...]

People who care for the homebound and elderly often need care themselves. A home healthcare agency, Home Instead Senior Care, is offering a free web conference for family caregivers at 7 p.m.  Nov. 19.

The web conference, “The Best Care for Your Parents: Senior Care Solutions and Potential Pitfalls,” will be co-hosted by Suzanne Mintz, president [...]

A new poll from shows that most people who tried to get the  swine flu vaccine for themselves or their children were unable to receive it.
The poll by the Harvard School of Public Health showed that only 30 percent of adults who tried to get it for themselves were able to obtain the vaccine.
It also [...]

Pretty Penny, the Nyack riverfront mansion where Helen Hayes lived for many years, will be the site of a fundraiser next month to benefit the hospital named in honor of  the famous Broadway actress.

The Helen Hayes Hospital Foundation will host a “Holiday Pretty Penny Social” on Sunday, December 6,  from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. [...]

Former New York state Commissioner of Health Dr. Antonia  Novello has been reprimanded and censured by a board of the Department of Health that she once led.

Novello will have a to pay a $10,000 fine and complete continuing education in the area of professional ethics, according to a finding issued by the Office of Professional [...]

A shampoo to protect against the H1N1 virus? A dietary supplement that does the same? How about a spray that claims to leave a layer of ionic silver on one’s hands that kills the flu virus? 

The are all among the quack cures that have come to the attention of the Food and Drug Administration.

The federal [...]