for your health

For Your Health - The Suffolk County Fatherhood Initiative, a part of The Retreat, is working with President Barack Obama's Fatherhood Buzz project to promote parental responsibilities, in order to prevent domestic violence.

For Your Health - In the Hamptons celebrating Memorial Day weekend signals the “Season” of parties, barbeques and full on beach time.

For Your Health - Aging happens as they say – you wake up one morning, grab that cup of Joe and as you pass that mirror you do a double take, whoa, how did that happen? You take a close look and what you see just doesn't seem to match. You see tired, drab, textured skin, and yes wrinkles. Uuuggghhh – you have become your mother!

For Your Health - This week Peconic Bay Medicak Center further reinforced its position as a regional leader for advanced surgical procedures by naming Dr. Scott Press as its Director of Robotic Urology.

For Your Health - Fighting Chance, the Sag Harbor-based free cancer counseling center has released preview copies of Coping with Cancer on the East End. The 99 page guide is a “where-to-find-it" informational of cancer care resources, geared for use by newly diagnosed patients on the East End of Long Island.

For Your Health - Master holistic health instructor Ohashi will make a rare appearance in the Hamptons this week when he conducts a three hour workshop at Gurney's Inn Resort and Spa on Wednesday, September 12.

For Your Health - The season is upon us and as just as we come out of our winter, urban hibernation the ticks are waiting. Brian Kelly, dedicated tick and mosquito control expert and owner of East End Tick & Mosquito Control, shared some tips with Hamptons.com on how to protect your family from the tick born diseases that can be so dangerous.

For Your Health - ENT and Allergy Associates recently welcomed Dr. Joel E. Portnoy, a board-eligible head and neck surgeon and fellowship trained laryngologist to the medical staff.

For Your Health - Many people spend a great deal of time outdoors. Parents take their children out for walks to the local park or around the neighborhood. A next door neighbor might be out cleaning the yard, the mailman delivering mail, the Federal Express truck making stops at various houses and businesses. Unfortunately, anyone who is outdoors doing anything could potentially become a Lyme disease victim, since the ticks that spread this can be anywhere.

For Your Health - Thanks to Baby Boomers and modern medical marvels, more Americans than ever are heading into their senior years, and they're expected to live longer than ever, too.

For Your Health - Doctors call a heart attack a “myocardial infarction.” Loosely translated, the term means heart-muscle death. (Heart attack is a subject too vast for one column. We'll need three. This is Part II).

For Your Health - New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I, D, WF-Sag Harbor) has joined with the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program in their annual Mother's Day campaign to urge women to get mammograms.

For Your Health - Every day, it seems like a new prescription drug is created to treat every type of ache, pain or ailment. This has left many households stockpiled with all kinds of medications.

For Your Health - Southampton Hospital's Palliative Care Service has been available for patients and their families a full year now. The service provides comprehensive care and management of physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs to patients who are seriously ill and/or experiencing a life-threatening illness.

For Your Health - Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman (I-Montauk) and the Suffolk County Office for People with Disabilities would like to inform the community of an organization called Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPARxNY).

For Your Health - With an allergist, the consequences of the right and wrong words have measurable consequences, ranging from comfort to chronic misery, to medical payments spent wisely or wasted, and sometimes life or death.

For Your Health - Eastern Long Island Hospital (ELIH) announces a new outpatient treatment that destroys pre-cancerous tissue in the lining of the esophagus.

For Your Health - Doctors call a heart attack a “myocardial infarction.” Loosely translated, the term means heart-muscle death. (Heart attack is a subject too vast for one column. We'll need three. This is Part I).

For Your Health - Southampton Hospital has announced the availability of DaTscan (Ioflupane I 123 Injection), the first FDA-approved radiopharmaceutical adjunct imaging agent to help physicians evaluate patients with suspected Parkinsonian syndromes.

For Your Health - The Long Island Community Foundation has awarded $50,000 to Southampton Hospital for the implementation of NextGen, an electronic medical and dental records management system at the Hospital's Shinnecock Health Clinic.