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Is Mount Sinai’s Merge with Continuum a Cause for Concern?

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Post date October 10, 2013

IMG: via Mount Sinai Hospital

Earlier this month, the official merger of Mount Sinai Medical Center and Continuum Health Partners was finalized, resulting in the newly formed Mount Sinai Health System. This medical network is now the largest in New York City; Continuum’s community-oriented hospitals include Beth Israel Medical Center, Roosevelt Hospital, St. Luke’s, as well as the New York […]

Tags charity, Doctor, Gail and Carl Icahn, health, hospital, Ken Mehlman, kenneth davis, mount sinai, mount sinai medical center, New York, New York City, philanthropy

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Inflatable Colon Increases Awareness of Colorectal Cancer

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Post date March 5, 2013

When it comes to medical concerns, we humans have an alarming tendency to not admit to problems that may be embarrassing. Unfortunately, those problems can sometimes be very severe, like colorectal cancer—which is the combined name for both colon and rectal cancers. Colorectal is the third most diagnosed cancer in the United States and causes […]

Tags American cancer association, Cancer, colon cancer, colorectal cancer, Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Doctor, health, Medical, Prevent Cancer Foundation, rectal cancer

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