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Vertigo/Dizziness Q&A
When something unbelievable happens, it may make your head spin. But if that spinning is happening more often than not, Phillip Kramer, MD, director of the Vestibular Laboratory at the JFK Neuroscience Institute, suggests it may be time to investigate the true cause.
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New JFK Johnson Center for Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Opens To Speed Recovery and Extend Lives for Patients with Heart and Lung Disease
The new JFK Johnson Center for Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation opened this week to speed the recovery and extend the lives of people with heart and lung disease. The newly expanded and renovated center provides highly specialized, closely monitored exercise programs as well as nutritional counseling, stress management and behavioral modification.
Suffering stroke has changed the way this JFK nurse will treat patients
"This is the worst headache of my life."
Those are the eight words nurse Philip Castillo texted his wife Robin shortly before a searing pain ripped through his body. The 31-year-old was working his last shift in JFK Medical Center's stroke unit one Friday afternoon in November.
Dr. Kirmani Receives American Heart Association - NJ Physician of the Year Award
Robotic Surgery at JFK Helps Patients Avoid Chemotherapy
Michael Lasser, MD, Urologist, consults with robotic surgery patient Martin Joseph of Old Bridge, after prostate procedure.
Martin Joseph of Old Bridge wasn’t alarmed when he was told that his annual physical showed his PSA (prostate-specific antigen) was elevated from the year before. He went to see a urologist, who recommended a biopsy of his prostate.
JFK Health and Hackensack Meridian Health Sign Definitive Agreement to Merge
Today, the Boards of Trustees of JFK Health and Hackensack Meridian Health announced that the two not-for-profit health networks signed a definitive agreement to merge. The agreement follows more than five months of due diligence where a thorough review of clinical, regulatory, service, and financial issues occurred. The agreement now undergoes regulatory review with the state Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission.
Parkinson's Patient Can Control Treatment with iPod
By Briana Vannozzi, Correspondent
You can’t see tremors in Paul Detlefsen’s hands now, but a decade ago, the outlook for this 43-year-old Parkinson’s disease patient looked a lot different. “My symptoms were mostly in the right arm, sever tremors,” he said. Detlefsen underwent what’s called deep brain stimulation surgery.
