New York Daily News: How to Stay Healthy on Your Summer Getaways
A summer trip can be bliss — but not if you spend those days sick and cooped up in your hotel room.Taking common-sense precautions can make all the difference, whether you're traveling someplace far-flung or close to home, according to Daniel Caplivski, MD, Medical...
HuffPost: How The ‘Low-FODMAP Diet’ Can Help Manage Irritable Bowel Syndrome
A relatively recent approach, called the low-FODMAP diet, has helped many people with IBS and is fast becoming the new gold standard for managing symptoms. Laura Manning, MPH, RD, CDN, Clinical Nutrition Coordinator at the Susan and Leonard Feinstein IBD Clinical...
Metro New York’s Ask Mount Sinai: Mount Sinai heart surgeon explains what happened to Jimmy Kimmel’s son
Jimmy Kimmel's emotional monologue started a national conversation about heart defects in infants. Peter Pastuszko, MD, Chief of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery for Mount Sinai Health System, explains this condition. Read the article in Metro New York
HuffPost: A Parent’s Guide To Supporting Transgender Youth
Parents can play a major role in keeping their transgender children healthy and safe. Here are some tips from Zil Garner Goldstein, Program Director, Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai, Assistant Professor of Medical Education, Icahn School of...
Knee Pain and Arthroscopy: Less Pain and Faster Recovery Through Minimally Invasive Surgery
Knee pain is experienced in both professional athletes and those with a sedentary lifestyle, notes Edward Yang, MD, board certified orthopedic surgeon and Chief, Department of Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai Queens. The common medical complaint affects a large spectrum,...
How to Manage Your Child’s Pain Post-Tonsillectomy
Aldo Londino, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Mount Sinai Health System and is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital. He specializes in the treatment of children with complex...
Metro New York’s Ask Mount Sinai: You Don’t Have to Have Polycystic Ovaries to Have PCOS
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common causes of infertility in women. It can not be cured, but the symptoms can be managed, according to Charles J. Ascher-Walsh, MD, director of the Gynecology and Urogynecology Division at the Department of...
New York Daily News: Access to Liver Transplants is Worse for New Yorkers
The harsh reality is that, wherever you live, there are not enough organs to accommodate those in need. Nationally, about 8% of patients die while waiting for a liver; in New York, that rate is nearly double, according to Sander S. Florman, MD, Director of the...
HuffPost: Colon Cancer is Preventable, Treatable, Beatable
Each year, more than 50,000 Americans die from colon cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. David A. Greenwald, MD, Director of Clinical Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, The Mount Sinai Hospital, explains why the vast majority of these...