Updated on Jan 4, 2018 | Diet and Nutrition, Exercise, Health Tips, Your Health
Guest post by Eli Oki Choo, MS, RD, CDN, Clinical Nutrition Coordinator at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Mrs. Choo has worked at Mount Sinai for the past 8 years, focusing on heart failure, left ventricular assist devices (LVAD), and heart transplant patients.
The holiday season is in full swing. It’s a time to enjoy family, friends, and food. Holiday festivities also present plenty of opportunities to overindulge. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine notes that the average person will gain about a pound from mid-November to the beginning of January. Although one pound seems relatively harmless, the study also found that the extra weight did not come off the following year. Over time, this additional weight adds up. Here are some healthy tips to help navigate the holiday season.
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Dec 13, 2016 | Inside, Your Health
Hemangiomas are the most common type of birthmark in children. While all start off small, some can grow quite large and they can alter the surrounding soft tissues and structures in ways that will not go away on their own. That is one reason it’s important for hemangiomas to be diagnosed and treated while infants are very young, Gregory M. Levitin, MD (www.birthmarkcare.com) is Director, Vascular Birthmarks and Malformations, and Associate Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, writes in The New York Daily News. Read more
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Research, Your Health
Guest blog written by Ryan Ungaro, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center.
More than 3 million people in the United States alone suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and thousands of new cases are being diagnosed every year. Worldwide, more than 5 million people are living with IBD, according to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. In 2011, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution making December 1-7 Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week. Chances are that even if you do not have the disease, you know someone who does. But there is hope. (more…)
Nov 23, 2016 | Your Health
With thousands of mobile health apps available to consumers, there is no standardized way for providers to find clinically proven apps that can be easily delivered to patients. Through RxUniverse, a new platform developed by researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System, the institution aims to be the first to address
this problem.
“Apps have typically been recommended to patients verbally, but with the myriad of mobile health apps on the market, many with no proven evidence, it is a challenge for providers and patients,” says Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, Chief Technology Innovation and Engagement Officer in the Department of Medicine, and Director of Sinai AppLab. (more…)
Nov 20, 2016 | Diabetes, Health Tips, Your Health
The International Diabetes Federation has declared November 14th to be World Diabetes Day. Diabetes, a chronic disease, is present when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, leading to elevated blood sugar levels. Without proper management, people with diabetes can face serious health complications, including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and amputations. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are 29.1 million people in the United States living with diabetes. (more…)
Nov 1, 2016 | Health Tips, Pediatric Care, Pediatrics, Your Health
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Guest Post by Samantha Rose, NP, a pediatric nurse practitioner on the pediatric pulmonology team at The Mount Sinai Hospital
Starting a new school year can be stressful for all families: asthma or not. If you are the parent of a child with asthma, here are a few tips to start off the school year stress- and symptom-free (more…)
Guest post by Eli Oki Choo, MS, RD, CDN, Clinical Nutrition Coordinator at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Mrs. Choo has worked at Mount Sinai for the past 8 years, focusing on heart failure, left ventricular assist devices (LVAD), and heart transplant patients.
