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Several nurses for a day. Brooklyn Eagle photos by Wayne Daren Schneiderman

Maimonides ‘Nurse for a Day’ event celebrates its ninth year

June 20 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman

BOROUGH PARK — Maimonides Health recently hosted its ninth annual Nurse for a Day event in honor of National Nurses Month. Its purpose: to provide participants, including local elected officials and community leaders, a hands-on, up close and personal opportunity to understand the essential services provided by frontline healthcare workers who are often unsung heroes. […]

Maimonides volunteers smile for the camera. Photo by Arthur De Gaeta

Maimonides celebrates student volunteers at annual breakfast ceremony

May 31 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman

Doogie Howser, M.D. has got nothing on these kids! Of course, the medical sitcom that premiered in 1989, starring a young Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician, is indeed fictitious, but the more than 200 high school students who volunteered to support patients and hospital staff at Maimonides Medical Center’s annual Student Recognition Ceremony […]

The animal contraband.

Brooklyn man convicted of selling exotic animal body parts

May 2 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar announced on Thursday that a Brooklyn man pleaded guilty to violating New York State Environmental Conservation Law by selling a prohibited wild animal part – a cougar head – to an undercover officer. The defendant additionally turned over […]