07.15.2017 Columns Column: High deer numbers threaten public health Not that long ago, many longtime residents and farmers rarely saw deer on their properties. Farmers could maintain their crops without the fear that herds of deer would devour...
04.26.2015 Columns Guest Spot: Tick-borne diseases — menace in our midst As a young scientist, I trained as a post-doctoral fellow with the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Long before Babesia became part of our local...
08.09.2014 Columns Guest Column: There’s a way to reduce tick-borne illnesses As has now been obvious for too long, we have a serious problem with tick-borne diseases on eastern Long Island. These can be challenging to diagnose and treat and...
06.20.2014 Health State Senate’s tick task force releases data, plans action New data outlining the extent of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in New York State was released Thursday by a state Senate group that also came up with an...