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 […]
Source: NJ.com Health Alzheimer’s Disease is coming out of the shadows in New Jersey, but many families struggling with it aren’t being guided to services that could help them cope: those are the key findings from a statewide PublicMind survey done at Fairleigh Dickinson University for the Alzheimer’s New Jersey organization. The survey found that […]
WOMAN OF THE YEAR: Antonia Montalvo, North Brunswick. After overdosing for what she decided would be the last time in 2015, Montalvo used psychological and spiritual guidance to find her way her out of addiction and domestic violence, and into founding a home for other addicted women. She’s already started work on opening a second […]
PART ONE More of 2018’s most noteworthy news stories: “Think I would die if you were to ignore me,” sang tennis great Serena Williams during Breast Cancer Awareness Month as a topless tribute to singer Christina Amphlett, who died of the disease. Well, Serena started the year by telling a hospital horror story of struggling […]