Last year I learned of an extraordinary young boy from Long Island, Brandon VonBargen. Brandon, then a third-grader at Bayville School, was diagnosed in January with APML, a form of leukemia.
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By Neela Lockel
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1/25/19
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The Manhattan-based Halloween haunt Blood Manor drew hundreds of guests to Nassau Coliseum last year when it debuted it Long Island attraction “Crypts of the Coliseum.” This year brings just as …
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By Brian Stieglitz
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10/18/18
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Some terrifying creatures, known as the “League of the Undead,” are skulking around Nassau Coliseum this month.
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By Karen Bloom
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10/5/18
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Some 4.5 million Americans would die each year without blood transfusions, according to Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Suffolk County. That is why donating blood is critical.
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7/21/18
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I looked down, and there it was — my heart, feverishly thumping. My valves looked like little whips snapping back and forth. It was a strange sight indeed.
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10/26/17
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Some terrifying creatures, known as the “League of the Undead,” are skulking around Nassau Coliseum this month.
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By Karen Bloom
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10/13/17
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Three members of the Latin Kings street gang were sentenced today for brutally stabbing, beating and kidnapping a member of the Bloods street gang who had entered the window of a Valley Stream home to collect his girlfriend’s belongings in March 2016.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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5/10/17
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February is American Heart Month, and there is no better time to think about being heart-healthy. If you have high blood pressure, this is the time to be sure you are doing everything you can to keep …
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Lynette Harry-Rutherford, RN, Director of Clinical Documentation and Reimbursement
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2/9/17
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In the aftermath of the massacre in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, Central Floridians rushed to local blood banks to help those in need. Unfortunately, many of them were turned away because of their sexual orientation.
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6/23/16
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March is the month we recognize the American Red Cross for all it does, as we have since President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it so in 1943: “I request that during that month . . .
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3/3/16
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