Health & Fitness

Navigating Through the Tween Years: Listen, Laugh and Trust Your Gut

By Jody Kashden, Ph.D. Change can be hard, no matter your age. But for kids in their tween years, it can be especially difficult as everything seems to be changing all...

Targeted Treatments Offer Hope for Patients with Metastatic Liver Cancer

By Samuel J. Greene, M.D. Metastatic liver cancer, also known as secondary liver cancer, occurs when cancer from another...

Robotic Prostate Surgery Can Reduce Side Effects Such as Incontinence, ED

By Jamison S. Jaffe, DO   When it comes to treatment for prostate cancer, men have a range of options,...

Powerful Tools for Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

By Eric H. Shen, MD Though not as common as some other types of cancer, pancreatic cancer is one...

Reclaim Your Life with Joint Replacement

By Hari P. Bezwada, MD            When is it time to have my joint replaced? It's a common question from patients...

Health & Fitness

Retired teacher teaches the most important lesson of her life

When Donna Mulrane retired, she didn’t think she’d have yet another lesson to teach — and that it would perhaps be the most important...

Free clinical health screenings available to women in Ocean County

Community Medical Center’s Community Health Services, Toms River, part of Barnabas Health, through a grant provided by the New Jersey Department of Health and...

Oh baby, it’s cold outside: cold weather workout clothing

By Joe Stein Someone once told me that for every day the average temperature falls below 25 degrees, a person’s waistline will increase one-eighth of...

Oncology team performs two of N.J.’s first medical tourism HIPEC surgeries for peritoneal surface malignancies

Complex state-of-the-art method reduces cancer extent and delivers heated chemotherapy drugs directly to cancer cells in the abdomen Itzhak Avital, M.D., M.B.A., chairman, department...

Supervised exercises help with knee osteoarthritis

By Jerry Moczerniuk P.T., D.P.T. A recently updated review of research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine revealed that participants with knee osteoarthritis...

A robot named ‘Trudy’ comes to JFK Medical Center

Imagine walking the halls of the JFK Medical Center in Edison and seeing a robot coming out of an empty hospital room, beeping out...

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