Mount Sinai

Just in time for cookout season, some unsettling news arrives for guacamole and salsa lovers: Federal testing turned up a wide array of unapproved pesticides on the herb cilantro — to an extent that surprises and concerns government scientists....

Paul Motian, an influential and much-admired jazz drummer who first gained renown in the late 1950s as part of the Bill Evans Trio and later became a composer and the leader of his own groups, has died. He was 80. Motian died Tuesday at Mount Sinai...

With the 9/11 memorial opening in just 10 weeks a $3 million dollar shortfall looms, and Port Authority executives refuse to ante up more money. The original $13 million project has now hit $16 million but no one has stepped up to pay the remaining...

David Rayfiel, a screenwriter and master script doctor who made his mark — often uncredited — on films by director Sydney Pollack that frequently featured Robert Redford, including "Three Days of the Condor," "The Way We Were" and "Out of...

One in 12 kids in the United States may have a food allergy, according to new findings based on an online survey. The study, published June 20th in Pediatrics, also showed that more than one third of those kids had severe allergies, and that allergies...

Sunscreen can help prevent those painful episodes of childhood sunburn, a risk factor for skin cancer later in life. But although sunscreen is recommended for infants older than six months by everyone from the National Institutes of Health to the American...

Tameka Stokes was 19 when a pelvic disease diagnosis brought her to the exam table of Bruce Sylvester Smith, a gynecologist at Chicago's Kennedy Medical Service Corp., in May 2000. According to Stokes' allegations in state records, Smith raped her...

They have the thinnest skin, the shortest fuses and take the hardest knocks. In psychiatrists' offices, they have long been viewed as among the most challenging patients to treat. They are the kind of people who drive a friend away for interfering and...

Hip and knee replacement surgery is supposed to alleviate pain and allow people to move better and lead a more active lifestyle. A new study published recently in the journal Orthopedics shows that could be the case, because weight loss may be one side...

Influenza has for years ravaged domesticated chickens. Now scientists suggest that a small piece of duck DNA might protect the farm birds against the virus -- saving commercial flocks and lessening the possibility that humans could be exposed to dangerous...

The Centers for Disease Control estimates approximately 12 million Americans suffer from food allergies, with more being diagnosed each day. To help educate viewers and explain the challenges for food allergy sufferers and their families, PIX11 Morning...

The 16th annual Sportsman's Club of Brown County Landowner Appreciation Dinner will be Feb. 5 at the AmericInn Hotel in Aberdeen. This event provides an opportunity for hunters to show appreciation to those who let them hunt on their land by treating...