NY Top Docs and NY Top Dentists are proud to feature the following February 2015 approved providers: NY Top Docs Include: Internal Medicine Dr. Rafael Soltren – 10562 Neurology Dr. Stephan Kranzler – 10603 Dr. Maria Muste – 10528 Dr. Richard Sweet – 10604 Dr. Barry Jordan – 10600 Neurology Dr. Pravin Shah – 10549 NY Top Dentists Include: General Dentistry Dr. Stacie Calian – 10549 Dr. Ira Handschuh – 10603 Dr. Robert Kirchmann – 10580 Dr. Jerome Loewenstein – 10580 Dr. Martin Schapiro – 10530 Dr. Barry Steinberg – 10598 Dr. James Sullivan – 10562 Periodontics Dr. Evan Wetzler – 10598 NY Top Docs is an exclusive and trusted healthcare resource that allows the public to find high quality healthcare providers in a simple, yet targeted method. Our goal is to provide New York residents with a complete informational resource to assist them when choosing a Healthcare Provider. All of this is at no cost to them. We review Read the full article →
In an article written by Rob Stein for npr.org, he brings up an interesting topic: Could using a dishwashing machine increase the chances your child will develop allergies? That’s what some provocative new research suggests — but don’t tear out your machine just yet. The study involved 1,029 Swedish children (ages 7 or 8) and found that those whose parents said they mostly wash the family’s dishes by hand were significantly less likely to develop eczema, and somewhat less likely to develop allergic asthma and hay fever. “I think it is very interesting that with a very common lifestyle factor like dishwashing, we could see effects on allergy development,” says Dr. Bill Hesselmar of Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, who led the study. The findings are the latest to support the “hygiene hypothesis,” a still-evolving proposition that’s been gaining momentum in recent years. The hypothesis basically suggests that people in developed countries are growing up Read the full article →
In an article written for Yahoo! Health, we learn of a man who gets a weekly massage – for medicinal purposes. For more than a decade, Bill Cook has gotten a weekly massage. He isn’t a professional athlete. He didn’t receive a lifetime gift certificate to a spa. Nor is the procedure a mere indulgence, he says – it’s medicinal. In 2002, Cook – a 58-year-old resident of Hudson, Wisconsin, who once worked in marketing – was diagnosed with a rare illness. He had cardiac sarcoidosis, a condition in which clusters of white blood cells coagulate together and react against a foreign substance in the body, scarring the heart in the process. The disease damaged his heart so badly it went into failure. The doctors said there was nothing they could do, and Cook’s name was put on an organ transplant waiting list. The wait stretched on for more than a decade. “I Read the full article →
In an article written by Rachel Swalin for Yahoo! Health, she debunks some major microwaving myths. Myth: Microwaving food is a danger to nutrients Nope, you shouldn’t be overly concerned about microwaves messing with nutrients. “There is no specific harm of microwaving with regard to nutrient levels,” says David Katz, MD, director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center. In fact, any type of cooking can chemically change a food and it’s nutrient content: Vitamin C, omega-3 fats, and some bioflavanoid antioxidants are more sensitive to heat in general, Dr. Katz says. Nutrients from veggies can also leach into cooking water. Since you’re apt to use less water when cooking in a microwave, your food might even be better off. Fact: You should be careful with plastics Microwaving plastics is definitely a no-no because it can lead to the containers breaking down and allowing more chemicals like BPA and phthalates to leach into Read the full article →
As per Buzzfeed.com, below are 18 facts about the sleep deprived. 1. Good sleep involves duration, timing, and quality, Dr. Charles Czeisler, chairman of the board of the National Sleep Foundation and chief of sleep medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, tells BuzzFeed Life. What this also means is that there are several ways to get crappy sleep that can hurt your health: Getting less than six hours a night for many nights in a row, for instance, means that you’re not sleeping for as long as you need to be healthy. Keeping a really erratic sleep schedule— staying up till 6 a.m. on weekends, but going to sleep at 10 p.m. and getting up at 6 a.m. on weekdays, for example. Having wildly divergent times that you go to bed and wake up can be bad for you. Having your sleep interrupted throughout the night, either through a sleep disorder like sleep Read the full article →
