Abbydek Family Medical Practice, P.C.

05/14/2023

05/14/2023

Spectaculaw!

So beautiful and well deserved 🤍

02/07/2023

Touching when you see people being kind to other people.

Some people just get it. :)

01/27/2023

Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in 1909 to a Jewish-Italian family in Turin. Levi-Montalcini's years in medical school coincided with the rise of fascism in Italy and the imposition of anti-Semitic laws which limited her career prospects. Once WWII broke out, she and her family decided to stay in Italy rather than flee overseas and she built a laboratory in her bedroom to continue her research work. It was in this makeshift laboratory that she began studying the development of chicken embryos; research that laid the underpinning of her later Nobel Prize-winning work on the mechanism of cell growth regulation.

After the N**i invasion of Italy in 1943, Levi-Montalcini and her family were forced underground and moved to Florence where she worked as a doctor in Allied war camps after the city was liberated. Following the war, in 1946, she moved to the U.S. for more than twenty years to conduct research at Washington University in St. Louis. It was there that she discovered nerve growth factor, a protein which regulates the growth of cells; this discovery was critical to better understanding tumor growth among other conditions.

It was for this breakthrough research that the Nobel committee described her work, along with fellow winner Stanley Cohen, as “a fascinating example of how a skilled observer can create a concept out of apparent chaos.” Both received the 1986 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Dr. Levi-Montalcini passed away in 2012 at the age of 103.

Rita Levi-Montalcini's story is told along with other pioneering women of science in the illustrated biography "Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers" for ages 9 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/women-in-science) and “Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – and The World" for teens and adults (https://www.amightygirl.com/headstrong-52-women)

She is also featured on the 'Famous Women in Science Socks' for teens and adults at https://www.amightygirl.com/famous-women-in-science-socks

For a fascinating book for adults about women in the Italian Resistance during WWII, we highly recommend "A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism" at https://www.amightygirl.com/a-house-in-the-mountains

For many books for children and teens about girls and women who lived during the Holocaust, visit our blog post, "60 Mighty Girl Books About The Holocaust" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11586

And for more inspiring stories of pioneering girls and women throughout history, you can sign-up for A Mighty Girl's free weekly email newsletter at https://www.amightygirl.com/forms/newsletter

12/05/2022

Please get your flu shot!

Nearly 20,000 people in the United States were admitted to the hospital for flu last week, almost double the number of admissions from the week before, according to data updated Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

05/11/2022

ABBYDEK RED LOBSTER DAY AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR ABBY FASHAKIN
with Emmanuel Fashakin

08/15/2019

For Primary Care duties in all our three offices in Brooklyn and Queens

08/15/2019

FLU SHOT NOW AVAILABLE!

We now have adequate supply of Flu Shot in all our three branches of Abbydek Family Medical. You need to get the Flu Shot early for maximum protection. Covered by all insurance. $20 only if no insurance

07/17/2019

ABBYDEK STAFF, RED LOBSTER STAFF APPRECIATION DAY JULY 17, 2019

10/01/2018

80,000 PEOPLE IN THE US DIED FROM FLU LAST YEAR! – CDC SAYS.
What Can Be Done to Prevent Another Rise in Flu Deaths This Year?
GET YOUR FLU SHOT – IT’S FREE WITH ANY INSURANCE, ONLY $20 IF NONE.
DON’T BE A STATISTIC!
GET YOUR FLU SHOT!!
By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Staff Writer | September 27, 2018 02:26pm ET
The 2017 to 2018 flu season in the U.S. was the worst in at least four decades, with around 80,000 deaths and 900,000 hospitalizations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Those figures include a record-breaking number of deaths in children.
Some of the lethality of last season's flu can be attributed to a particularly bad strain of the virus, called H3N2, which was especially devastating in older adults, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the director of the CDC Influenza Division, said during a news conference today (Sept. 27). Indeed, 90 percent of the deaths and 70 percent of those hospitalizations attributed to that strain were among people over the age of 65. [Flu Shot Facts & Side Effects (Updated for 2018-2019)]
But last season's flu strain wasn't the only reason for the high numbers of deaths and hospitalizations. Another factor was low vaccination rates, which not only remained far below what they should have been but also slightly decreased last season. According to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), 57.9 percent of people in the U.S. received their flu shot last season, down from 59 percent the season before.

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