Source: NJ.com After a group of kids made a 5-year-old boy’s birthday a special day to remember at a South Brunswick skate park, the town’s police department asked for the public’s help identify the “superheroes” to throw them a pizza party for their kindness. Kristen Braconi brought her son Carter, who has high functioning autism […]
Source: HudsonReporter.com The following is a schedule of upcoming Parenting Classes at Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center. To register or for more information, call Robin Petrick, IBCLC, ICCE, Parent Educator/Lactation Consultant at (201) 295-4823. Childbirth Education Series (Two-Day Course) – Cost is $125 per couple if delivering at Palisades Medical Center; $150 if delivering […]
Source: NJ.com Hours before taking an icy dip into the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of plungers tailgated in the parking lot of the Wildwoods Convention Center Saturday morning preparing for the sting and inevitable numbness that goes along with jumping into the 45-degree water. That chill would soon be warmed by the thought of all the […]
Sources: Adler Aphasia Center, Weather.gov Safety The Adler Aphasia Center offers an Aphasia Communication Group for stroke and brain injury survivors with aphasia. This group meets on two Friday mornings a month at their Center located at 60 West Hunter Avenue in Maywood. It offers people with aphasia an opportunity to socialize with others who […]
Source: NJbiz.com Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is covering the cost for 5,000 of its members to participate in a five-year study designed to improve screening guidelines for mammograms. The Women Informed to Screen Depending On Measures of Risk study is looking to clarify which method is safer and more effective for […]
Source: New Jersey Poison Control Center What does an over-the-counter (OTC) anti-diarrhea medicine have to do with the opioid epidemic? The New Jersey Poison Control Center has recently consulted on several cases of loperamide toxicity, signaling a growing, dangerous trend: the drug has high potential for abuse, misuse and risk of overdose among people of […]