LONG BRANCH – New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno joined staff, patients, families and supporters of the Valerie Fund Children’s Center at Monmouth Medical Center for a special event designed to raise awareness of the…
By Dr. Teresa Liccardi Dana McCaffery’s untimely death at 4 weeks old is immortalized on Facebook as Dana McCaffery—Whooping Cough Awareness. Tragically, this baby’s death and other infant deaths from whooping cough could have…
WEST LONG BRANCH – Monmouth University is pleased to present the Diane Gooch Distinguished Visiting Lecture “Fasting Girls: Then and Now” with a question-and-answer session delivered by Cornell Professor Emerita Joan Jacobs Brumberg at 1…
LONG BRANCH – Pier Village has joined forces with Susan G. Komen For The Cure of Central and South Jersey along with RSI Bank and Monmouth Medical Center to focus on breast cancer awareness this…
By Michele J. Kuhn Business owners collaborate to bring awareness to detectable cancers RED BANK – It was over a drink one evening between friends that the idea for a cancer awareness event was hatched.…
LONG BRANCH – As part of its free mini-lecture series, called Get to Know Us Before You Need Us, The Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center is holding a lecture. Fever: An Approach to the…
By Dr. Teresa Liccardi West Nile Virus (WNV) has been in the news this past month. There is concern that the incidence of the virus is rising and causing significant illness in some people…
RED BANK — The perceptions of what it means to be an older adult have been transforming from outdated concepts to the new reality that many seniors are very active physically, socially and mentally. “All…
By Michele J. Kuhn RED BANK – The brickwork is up and the windows are in. Construction along Riverside Avenue is continuing at a brisk pace. The Atrium at Navesink Harbor is building 60 more…
By Teresa Liccardi, M.D. “You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good — but your rich foods block the gods’ answer and tie Jupiter’s hands.” Persius (34 AD -62 AD)…