BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published January 18, 2017
Earlier this year, Dr. Paul Hauptman heard from an uninsured patient coping with heart failure that he had not filled a prescription because a month’s supply of the generic medication would cost $100. “Like me, I think a lot of doctors assume that...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published December 21, 2016
A licensed clinical social worker, Kathy Bearman works with people confronting their mortality and making choices about priorities as they face a life-threatening disease. She leads the Sharsheret Supports Circle, founded in St. Louis a year ago for...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTWhen Michael Tzinberg, 27, earned a degree in recreation management, he didn’t expect to be teaching yoga to preschoolers. But that’s how it worked out, and he is really glad. “I love it because...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published October 19, 2016
The Association of American Medical Colleges honored Dr. Stuart Slavin in 2013 with its highest teaching award for his work restructuring St. Louis University’s four-year medical school curriculum to help students better cope with anxiety.Now Slavin...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 17, 2016
The Jewish community in Mexico City is not large, Dr. Mauricio Lisker-Melman says, but growing up in the middle of it, he was always aware that it wielded great influence. “There are only about 40,000 Jews in one of the biggest cities in the world,...
By Carol Wolf Solomon, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 22, 2016
With every member of the baby-boom generation now past the age of 50, the need to shed the stigma and develop a Jewish communal response to Alzheimer’s disease takes on an even greater sense of urgency. Statistics released by the Alzheimer’s Association...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 22, 2016
Liane Levy-Green, a longtime certified personal trainer, running coach and fitness professional, found a way to combine her two great passions: strength training and running. In March 2014, she opened Burn 1000, her fitness studio. The bonus? Levy-Green,...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 18, 2016
If you have multiple sclerosis (MS) and you have stopped your treatments because of side effects — or any other reason — Dr. Barry Singer wants you to know there are lots of treatment options now, worth another look.A disease of the brain and spinal...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 21, 2016
Feet are not supposed to hurt. Period. “People don’t realize that if your feet hurt, you have a problem,” Dr. Randy Aaranson says. “Many people think that feet are supposed to hurt, that it’s normal. It is not.”That said, at some point, everybody...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published January 20, 2016
For the past 25 years, Dr. David Gutmann has devoted his medical and research career to helping individuals with neurofibromatosis (NF), which he calls “the most common disorder you’ve never heard of.” Of the three types, neurofibromatosis Type...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 16, 2012
In the summer of 2009, Mia Brown experienced the first symptoms of what soon was diagnosed as Crohn’s disease, a chronic disorder that causes inflammation of the digestive or gastrointestinal tract. The incidence is highest in Caucasians and Ashkenazi...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published December 21, 2011
The spa at the Jewish Community Center's Staenberg Family Complex is a haven, a quiet place to relax and unwind with a little help from the eight certified massage therapists there - and it's getting even better."We have a gorgeous facility with a range...
