Ana Tergas, MD, a gynecologic oncologist on the faculty at Columbia University Medical Cancer New York Presbyterian Hospital, is now seeing patients at St. Barnabas Hospital. Dr. Tergas treats vaginal, cervical, vulvar, endometrial, and ovarian cancers […]
Intervention
Nutrition Plays a Growing Role in Patient Health
On a beautiful, unseasonably cool late July day, the 65-year-old Bronx woman is the first of about a dozen patients scheduled to meet Andrea Plunkett, a registered dietitian, on the 6th floor of the SBH ambulatory […]
HIV/AIDS Then and NOW
A Positive Blood Test Was Almost Like a Death. From the early 1980s, when it was first identified, through the mid-1990s, the prognosis was dire: Almost uniformly, it was fatal. And, very likely, the end was […]