WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Sledding is a fun wintertime activity for families. However those exhilarating slides down neighborhood hills send more than 20,000 children to emergency rooms each year, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. With winter in full swing, Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center -- the children’s hospital for the Hudson Valley ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Old man winter is gearing up to deliver the first substantial snowfall to our area this season. Weather forecasters are calling for a blizzard with possible record snowfall -- in some cases of up to two feet or more in some areas of the Hudson Valley. While this usually means lots of winter fun and outdoor activities for the kids and winter sports ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Old man winter is gearing up to deliver the first substantial snowfall to our area.   Weather forecasters are calling for a possible snowfall of up to a foot or more in some areas of the Hudson Valley.  While this usually means lots of winter fun and outdoor activities for the kids and winter sports enthusiasts, unfortunately, every year hundreds of people ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Turkey is often blamed for the after dinner lethargic feeling we may experience at our Thanksgiving dinner.   However, the truth of the matter is that you could skip the beloved, tender and juicy great American national bird all together and still feel the lingering effects of the annual celebratory feast of the harvest. Alcohol and overeating, two very ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- The holiday season is traditionally a joyous time of year. Sadly, this time is often marred by unnecessary and preventable tragedies. According to the U.S. Fire Administration each year there is an increased incidence of cooking-related fires on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  Many of these fires are preventable, and so are the injuries they ...

If you have to be literally brought back to life, Easter Sunday is as good a day as any. On that day this spring, 22-year-old Jimmy Murphy (James Jr.) of Yonkers was casually shooting hoops with his dad and brothers, waiting for the family’s holiday dinner to be ready, when he suddenly collapsed. Continue reading...

Everything seemed to be going perfectly during Deborah Strobach’s third pregnancy. At 36 weeks’ gestation, the Orange County mother of two—Autumn, 7, and Nicholas, 5—was getting ready to welcome the family’s new addition when, on February 10, she started to experience chest pain. Strobach, 34, who works in a physical therapy office, and her husband, Ken, 39, a fuel tanker driver, went ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. -- Westchester Medical Center is once again well-represented in Westchester Magazine's annual ranking of the county's top doctors with 71 doctors — nearly 25 percent of the list in 56 different specialties.  In an annual survey of their peers, 71 doctors from Westchester Medical Center were ranked among the top 292 doctors — nearly 25 percent of all the doctors on ...

The minute Billy Davis was sent flying off his motorcycle, he knew it was going to end badly. Davis, 38, of Jersey City, was taking exit 17S off I-87 onto I-84. His bike, a custom-built, tricked-out 1997 Suzuki 750, hit a patch of gravel and spun out. Both he and the bike slid, at about 45 miles an hour, across the road and into a guardrail. Continue reading...

As part of the 16-bed Neuro ICU expansion project, 14 new Neuro ICU beds are now open at Westchester Medical Center. The additional two ICU beds will be added by the end of the year. The newly expanded unit features large, single-occupancy rooms equipped with the latest technology and modern décor, including soothing earth tones and flat-screen TVs and a video system, which allows ...