Garrison News

How can insurers justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient per year on "orphan drugs" - extremely expensive medications for rare conditions that are mostly chronic and life-threatening -- when this money could provide greater overall health benefit if spread out among many other patients? Those spending decisions reflect the ... (more)

The old house wanted to fall down but Brooks Banker wouldn't let it. "From the moment I saw this house, I knew it had to be mine," he says of the simple clapboard cottage in Garrison, New York, some 60 miles north of Manhattan.

Science Writers in New York , The Hastings Center , and City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism present a unique, one-day workshop "Bioethics Boot Camp: Finding the Must-Read Angle for Science and Medical Stories." The Boot Camp will be held on Friday, March 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the CUNY Graduate School of ... (more)

In a vote that's meaningless yet potentially significant, Briarcliff ManorA school trustees decide tonight whether to help finance a major makeover of BOCES' deteriorating facilities in Yorktown.

When your health insurance provider denies an experimental treatment or a high-cost drug, how much are you willing to pay for the care you believe you need? Barby Ingle, a former cheerleading and dance coach at Washington University who now lives in a Phoenix suburb, has been forced to face this question.

A strange thing happened when two Episcopalians started a religious community in the early 1900s with the goal of promoting Christian unity.

Garrison: MLK Children's Program. Vassar College professors Sarita Gregory and Quincy Mills and storyteller Jonathan Kruk will read stories and present music that explore regional civil rights history and contemporary civil rights issues in an age-appropriate way.

Simply Streisand, New York's long-running hit revue, will make a special, one night only appearance in Putnam County on Sunday, January 15th at 7pm at the Philipstown Depot Theatre, located on Garrison's Landing in Garrison, NY.

White Plains: Music of Freedom - A Community Concert in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.