No polio virus found in NY county wastewater 6 months after Jewish man was paralyzed
Rockland County, which has highest per capita Jewish population in the US, reports 14,000 vaccine doses given since July
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News She’s paralyzed from polio. Now she’s warning Orthodox Jews of an impending danger
Months after an Orthodox man was paralyzed by polio, New York public health says the virus is still circulating
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News New study of Jewish men links heart health with religious lifestyle
Israeli Haredi men had a much lower chance of dying from heart disease than their agnostic peers
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News New York health officials worry that polio will strike again in heavily Hasidic enclaves
'You don't find polio just willy-nilly in wastewater in the United States,’ said one public health official
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First Person My donor wanted to give me her kidney — and get home in time for Shabbat
‘Have you ever felt that you knew someone all your life even though the two of you had never met?’
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News Brooklyn clinic reports 500 coronavirus cases. But city questions its testing methods.
An urgent-care center that serves Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn said Thursday that it has confirmed 528 cases of coronavirus among the 937 people it tested since last Friday, heightening concerns that infections in the highly social Hasidic world are spiking — and that the clinic’s aggressive approach could be helping it spread. With test kits…
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Life Can ‘Kosher’ IVF Help Prevent Fertility Mix-Ups?
When Esther and her husband decided to do fertility treatment, the modern Orthodox couple consulted with their rabbi. “We didn’t think twice about it,” said the New Jersey woman who preferred not to give her full name. She had lost a few pregnancies before starting in vitro fertilization (IVF), the medical process of extracting a…
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Community Can Prayer Help Us Heal? Doctors Say Yes.
As the medical director of the Pittsburgh Steelers and a world-class neurosurgeon, Dr. Joseph Maroon has seen his share of frightened patients. And he’s found that the most effective way to calm down a patient before surgery is to pray. If a patient is willing, Dr. Maroon will take his or her hand and quietly…
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