BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 17, 2011
Missouri is now one of 23 states with laws designed to improve education about cord blood stem cells - potentially life-enhancing cells harvested from the umbilical cords of newborns - and about the options for preserving them.Currently, three out of...
World renowned geriatric and neurological specialist Dr. George Grossberg will speak on "Medical and Rabbinic Perspectives in Managing End-of-Life: A Case Based Approach," at an event hosted by The Maimonides Society of Jewish Federation. It will be held...
BeneFitness, an all-day fitness event to promote good health while raising money for charities, will takes place on Sunday, Aug. 14 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) Staenberg Family Complex in Creve Coeur. It's open to the entire...
If there was one thing I could change about my face, I'd get rid of the frown lines between my eyebrows. I know I'm not alone in this targeted hostility towards those lines. In fact, one of my colleagues who's young enough to be my daughter and has beautiful,...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 20, 2011
After 23 years as an orthodontist here, Dr. Larry Levens of Ladue is pursuing a second master's degree - in Hannover, Germany.Once a month, Levens flies to Germany for five days to study with Dr. Dirk Wiechmann at the University of Hannover Medical School....
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 15, 2011
When Beverly Fogelman and Dr. Ralph Graff consulted about programming at Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel Congregation - she heads the social action committee and he chairs the adult education program - they came up with a topic certain to spark a lively question-and-answer...
By Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT
• Published May 27, 2011
"To sleep, perchance to dream....." While this is a beautiful literary sentiment, the importance of sleep represents more than just an ideal time to allow the mind to rest and drift. The hectic pace at which the majority of us live our lives necessitates...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 25, 2011
Dr. Gustav Schonfeld, a survivor of the Holocaust who went on to a successful and admired career as a physician, professor and former head of the Washington University Department of Medicine, died Saturday, May 21, at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center...
Join Hadassah for its 6th annual Walk On Sunshine, which raises money to find cures for brain tumors. The walk, which will take place Sunday, June 5 at Queeny Park (off Weidman Road) in Ballwin, is suitable for strollers and pets - and walkers of all...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 18, 2011
Melanie Paticoff hears perfectly, but she is devoting her life to helping those who cannot and to educating the rest of us about hearing loss.Paticoff is just 21, but the Clayton resident has written an award-winning children's book about hearing loss,...
St. Louis Chapter Hadassah's 6th annual Walk on Sunshine event, raising research funds for and awareness about brain tumors, will once again feature T-shirts emblazoned with the names of loved ones touched by brain tumors. Although the walk is on Sunday,...
HOPE HAPPENS FOR PEOPLE WITH NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS at the 7th annual Evening of Hope, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12 at the Sheldon, 3648 Washington Boulevard. The event is hosted by Hope Happens, which financially supports the Hope Center for Neurological...
