Desire To Help Others Draws Nurse Into Health Care
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Brenda Nickens is the nurse manager at NYU Langone Medical Associates in Riverhead.
Brenda Nickens is the nurse manager at NYU Langone Medical Associates in Riverhead.
Cailin Riley on Nov 10, 2022
For as long as she can remember, Brenda Nickens knew she wanted to one day work in the medical field. Figuring out exactly what her niche would be within that... more
Pity the poor horseshoe crab. It is, without question, a survivor almost beyond compare. Consider this: There are fossils of the creature dating back 445 million years. Dinosaurs arrived about 200 million to 250 million years ago — which means the time between us and dinosaurs is equal to the time between dinosaurs and the earliest horseshoe crabs. And they’re still here, nearly unchanged. But they finally may have met their match. The American horseshoe crab has “vulnerable” status, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The population faces a whole series of challenges, including sea-level rise, coupled ...
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