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Northwell Health’s Annual Walk Raises Record $1.14M To Improve Health In Local Communities

More than 6,000 people came together across five Northwell Health Walk locations on May 19 to raise more than $1.14 million for local hospital programs and services, a second record-setting year for the annual event. Supporters including patients, families, community members and Northwell employees joined walks at Jones Beach and in Port Jefferson, Riverhead, Westchester
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Cohen Children’s Medical Center Performs First Gene Therapy Treatment For Thalassemia in NYS

The first administration in New York State of Zynteglo, recently approved by the FDA as a one-time gene therapy custom designed to treat the underlying genetic cause of transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia in adult and pediatric patients, was performed earlier this month at Cohen Children’s Medical Center (Cohen) on an 8-year-old boy from Valley Stream, Long Island. […]