Category Archives: Medicine

You will be forgiven, in a secular sense at least, for not knowing that there's something called 'Darwin Day.' A dozen years ago, there was only one known celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday — Feb 12, 1809. Now, if we...

Volunteer firemen quickly extinguished the blaze. (Photos courtesy of Steve Fitzpatrick) The cause of a fire in an outdoor trash compactor at Riverview Medical Center yesterday afternoon is under investigation. A closer look shows the orange glow of the fire...

Rev. Elmer Jackson, left , and his son, Jeff, in training at WOW in Middletown. By TIM HATHAWAY Before having open heart surgery in June 2006, Rev. Elmer Jackson met a bicyclist who had already been through the procedure. "He...

One of three doughnut shop employees convicted in a 1991 murder in a Red Bank medical office has had his latest appeal denied, today's Asbury Park Press reports. In one of the borough's more sensational crimes, 22-year-old Wanda Pandure was...

Dr. Philip Eatough, the Rumson pain-management physician facing a slew of charges related to drug prescribing, should be allowed to continue operating his Middletown practice in the interim, but under strict limits, a state panel has recommended. Today's Star-Ledger reports...

Dr. Philip Eatough, the Rumson physician who faces criminal charges for alleged overprescribing painkillers, got some key support today at hearing over the fate of his medical license, the Asbury Park Press reports. At a hearing before the New Jersey...

A Rumson physician who was indicted in October on federal drug charges is facing a possible loss of his medical license, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners took up the administrative case of...

Sorry, the talent in the trailer is strictly no-name. Perhaps you saw all those film-crew vehicles, complete with portable tents and a catering truck, parked outside the Parker Family Health Center on Shrewsbury Avenue today. Well, no, they are not...

Volunteers do what they can at St. Anthony of Padua to help keep the needy from going hungry. Twice a week, a food pantry at the church gives out bagfuls of food to dozens of families, many of them Hispanic...

A Rumson doctor was headed to federal court this afternoon after being arrested this morning on charges of presecribing excessive amounts of presecription drugs that he knew would be illegally resold or abused, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. An...

Rev. Dwight Crist Northington of Calvary Baptist Church on Bridge Avenue is featured in today's Asbury Park Press, where he talks about the double lung transplant that saved his life earlier this year. From the article: A year ago, the...

A Pennsylvania couple who owned a purported Red Bank investment firm that offered specialized financial services for podiatrists have been indicted on state charges of bilking their clients out of more than $500,000, the Star-Ledger is reporting. From the article:...

We here at redbankgreen weren't the only ones who did a double-take on opening last Sunday's New York Times Magazine to page 39. "Is that who we think it is in the full-page patient testimonial for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center...

Christela Diaz, the Aberdeen woman who gave birth to a boy in her car near exit 109 of the Parkway Tuesday, tells the Asbury Park Press that she and her husband were shocked by little Zachary's sudden arrival. For one...

A pregnant woman enroute to Riverview Medical Center from exit 109 of the Parkway gave birth to a son in her car yesterday afternoon. The Star-Ledger says the woman's husband, who was driving, called the Monmouth County 911 Communications Center...

Everyone who attended the taping two weeks ago of the debut episode of Power of 10, a new TV game show, was sworn to secrecy about the outcome. Which meant that, true to her word, Sue Massie hadn't told anyone...

OK, so this is not your usual redbankgreen weekend entertainment listing. But the folks at the Central Jersey Blood Center are putting on their third annual 'Rock 'n Roll Up Your Sleeve' blood drive on Saturday. And, as in the...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI Sachi, a gorgeous eleven-year-old Siberian husky, is sitting on a metal table at the Red Bank Veterinary Hospital displaying the smile her owners say makes her "the mayor" of her Holmdel neighborhood. Meantime, Dr. Keith Stein...

Hospital staff and emergency personnel outside the Blaisdell Pavilion during this morning's fire. Riverview Medical Center spokeswoman Donna Sellmann tells redbankgreen that this morning's fire had no impact internally. "At no times were patients affected," she said. "They're safety was...

The scene outside the Blaisdell Pavilion early this morning. Emergency personnel and equipment swarmed Riverview Medical Center early this morning in response to a midnight fire in the hospital's basement. The fire was was extinguished within an hour without any...