Hilary B. Kern, M.D.

11/18/2025

Some fun hi protein recipes!

11/17/2025

Get tickets for New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Reserve MoMA admission online and skip the ticket lines. Discount and free admission available.

11/17/2025

11/13/2025

Wonderful doc!
Loved seeing the spiritual/physical work of Perf Arts PT Marika Molnar, the multitude of talents of star focus Tyler Peck & her brilliant athlete husband Roman Mejia. A great watch;))

A bit disturbed that she went through 5 surgeons (& not 1 PM&R doc!!!) until she got to her final conservative surgeon at HSS for her neck injury (finally!!)!!

Follow acclaimed ballerina Tiler Peck as she overcomes injury to reclaim her place on stage and debut her own choreography with New York City Ballet, revealing the resilience and artistry behind a modern-day prima ballerina.

11/12/2025

Amazing article!!

Have you ever been with someone who gaslights you, invalidates your feelings, plays the victim, and somehow leaves you questioning your reality? Or maybe you’re the one who’s

11/11/2025

Popular ideas about inflammation have lost touch with medical reality, Jason Liebowitz writes.
https://theatln.tc/GCgFl6MZ

Much of the culture has “latched onto inflammation and made it a catch-all term for ‘something amiss in the body’—a bête noire for wellness gurus, health influencers, and the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement,” Liebowitz writes. Alternative treatments have proliferated, even as conventional treatments for autoimmune diseases have become more effective than ever.

Andrew Weil, a Harvard Medical School graduate, is among the foremost health influencers responsible for pushing nontraditional ideas about inflammation into the mainstream. “Weil argues that following his anti-inflammatory food pyramid and taking up practices such as meditation, yoga, and tai chi can help prevent and treat these diseases of chronic inflammation,” Liebowitz writes.

When Liebowitz asked Weil for proof that these interventions work, based on randomized clinical trials, Weil told Liebowitz that he believes such studies are not necessary when an intervention is unlikely to cause harm. “I grade evidence on a sliding scale,” Weil said.

Still, ideas like Weil’s are enticing among people with autoimmune conditions, particularly if doctors cannot offer a simple explanation as to why these conditions developed in the first place, Liebowitz argues. “Conversations with patients about if and when to start medication have always been complex, but online lore about inflammation, coupled with declining confidence in doctors since the coronavirus pandemic, have made such discussions more fraught.”

Doctors caring for patients with autoimmune diseases have long thought of inflammation in precise terms: Cells of the immune system lodge in tissues and release messenger molecules, called cytokines, that rev up the body’s response to a perceived insult. In recent years, scientists have been able to identify many cytokines and create targeted therapies for a host of disabling, sometimes fatal, diseases. “Doctors like me can prescribe treatments that turn many debilitating diseases into manageable conditions,” Liebowitz continues.

🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Source: DEA / G. Cigolini / De Agostini / Getty.

11/10/2025

Tonight 6p near NYU
Bring your friends …

Andrew is hosting an event tonight including this Jewish Cuban academic discussing her book/personal account.
Her story focuses on her family’s exile from Cuba (& before that their fleeing from the N***s) & relates to architecture & preservation.
Andrew is hosting this academic event so would love for you to join in!
Link above…
OH…wine & cheese*** & interesting friends & colleagues!!))

Please join the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee for book talk about Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair (Row House Publishing, 2023) by art and architectural conservator Rosa Lowinger, who will be in conversation with architect Angel Ayón. Dwell Time is an immigrant’s story seen thr...

11/08/2025

🧡 Lexi McCloud loves to take up space with lush, sweeping movements. Whether she’s dancing with the corps, in a principal role, or anything in between, the Ballet West newcomer naturally draws the audience’s eyes. During the 2024–25 season—her first in the main company—she had the opportunity to do it all, debuting a leading role in Christopher Wheeldon’s “Within the Golden Hour,” the title role in Sir Frederick Ashton’s “Cinderella,” and the Sugar Plum Fairy in Willam Christensen’s “The Nutcracker.” She topped it off with an end-of-season promotion to demi-soloist and has a list of roles she’s looking forward to tackling.

Learn more: https://dancemagazine.com/lexi-mccloud-ballet-west/ 🧡

📸: McCloud in Alexei Ratmansky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Photo by Beau Pearson, Courtesy Ballet West.
📝: Sophie Bress



Description: Lexi McCloud balances en pointe with her right leg extended front and her arms in 4th position. She wears a loose tulle dress with a green stripe.

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