Staff members from all around Westchester Medical Center gathered recently and wore red to show their support this month for the American Heart Association's national awareness campaign promoting awareness of heart disease and stroke. According to the American Heart Association one in three women die of heart disease and stroke each year. This month, Westchester Medical Center along ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Westchester Medical Center and celebrity stylist Melissa Garcia are providing tips for women on how to incorporate red into their wardrobe as part of the effort to raise awareness for National Heart Month. The hospital posted two of its five tips provided by Garcia last week. In the first fashion tip, a physician wears a red blazer with a black dress. “Not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Joe Vellone is a football fan. The retired Baldwin Place roofing contractor loves to watch the New York Jets on television, but that has become more and more difficult in recent years. Vellone, 76, has had his vision severely impaired by macular degeneration. “It started about six or seven years ago and got progressively worse until I couldn’t see anything ...