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Bronx Times

City postpones Thursday’s Cross Bronx workshop due to poor air conditions

Health

NYC students encouraged to attend school Wednesday despite wildfire smoke conditions: NYC officials

Posted on June 7, 2023

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Health

Op-ed | How Medicaid can help prevent gun violence

Posted on June 7, 2023

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Health

AIR QUALITY ALERT: New Yorkers warned to stay inside as dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires covers the city

Posted on June 7, 2023

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Bronx Times

Informative Diabetes Health Festival in Mott Haven features education, entertainment

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Op-ed | New York can expand medical cannabis access by empowering pharmacists to help patients enroll

Posted on June 6, 2023

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Brooklyn

First-ever vending machine offering free Narcan, safer drug use kits, and menstrual kits installed in New York City

Posted on June 5, 2023

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Bronx Times

State chips in $130M toward $650M modernization of Hunts Point Produce Market

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Bronx Times

Is the Bronx OK? It had the highest rate of psychiatric hospitalizations across NYC even before COVID-19

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‘We all matter’: Empire BlueCross BlueShield HealthPlus hosts ‘packing party’ for foster care kids with nonprofit Comfort Cases

Posted on May 25, 2023

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Op-ed | How Lupus has taught me to Lead

Posted on May 25, 2023

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Planet Fitness now offering NYC teens free summer gym passes and a chance to win a $10,000 scholarship

Posted on May 24, 2023

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Midtown Manhattan

‘A celebration of life’: Herald Square Plaza art installation marks Mental Health Awareness Month, Fountain House anniversary

Posted on May 23, 2023

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Will NYC’s new ‘Homeless Bill of Rights’ permit people the right to sleep outside?

Posted on May 21, 2023

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Meet four New Yorkers living with mental health conditions who are members of a Fountain House recovery clubhouse

Posted on May 19, 2023

Dr. Mitchell Katz, CEO of NYC Health

Health

‘We want to hire our own nurses’: NYC hospitals chief seeks funding boost after city spends $500M on temp nurses to fill vacancies

Posted on May 17, 2023

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Business

Firing one up: New York Cannabis board looks to speed up license rollout, let medical marijuana dispensaries sell recreational pot products

Posted on May 10, 2023

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Bronx Times

Montefiore’s See, Test & Treat event bridging cancer screening gap for the un- and underinsured

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Health

Hochul inks executive order boosting resources to NYC ahead of anticipated migrant surge

Posted on May 9, 2023

‘The reality of being invisible’: Homeless advocates say Jordan Neely wasn’t alone in suffering on the streets of NYC

Posted on May 7, 2023

COVID pandemic no longer a global emergency: WHO

Posted on May 5, 2023

Reproductive Rights Legislation

Health

Protecting abortion rights: Hochul and James look to solidify access to medication on public college campuses, double down against pill ban

Posted on May 3, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

South Brooklyn Health officials cut ribbon on new Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital, opening to patients May 7

Health

Study points to better care for babies born to opioid users

Posted on April 30, 2023

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‘We are here to fight’: Annual PanCAN PurpleStride walk weathers storm for pancreatic cancer awareness

Posted on April 30, 2023

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Lyme disease likely to be more widespread this year following a mild winter

Posted on April 29, 2023

Health

New drugs promising weight loss are available: What you need to know

Posted on April 29, 2023

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Medical diagnostics company identified as city’s most prolific vehicle idler, but company says it’s permitted

Posted on April 25, 2023

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Mayor Adams revives campaign against lead exposure

Posted on April 25, 2023

Health

What the Supreme Court ruling on abortion pills means for women across America

Posted on April 22, 2023

Subway riders

4/20 saw 4 million NYC subway riders roll underground for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began: MTA

Posted on April 21, 2023

Our Academy founder Hilary Yu

Business

How Our Academy is working with New York’s Cannabis Management office to mentor CAURD licensees

Posted on April 19, 2023

Health

NYC and nonprofits got $60 million in new federal aid to battle homelessness. Here’s how they’ll spend the money.

Posted on April 18, 2023

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Health

Exclusive | DSS-DHS implements new harm reduction initiative for shelter residents

Posted on April 17, 2023

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What the historic JUUL settlement means in the effort to combat e-smoking epidemic among New York teenagers

Posted on April 16, 2023

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Latest abortion pill ruling could hit some safe havens hard

Posted on April 15, 2023

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Supreme Court keeps FDA abortion pill rules in place for now

Posted on April 14, 2023

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Gay City News

H+H opens Pride Health Center at Metropolitan Hospital

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Queens

New $5 million Cohen Family Wellness Center opens in Queens, delivering ‘a home run in borough’

Posted on April 13, 2023

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Bronx Times

City completes ‘first of many steps’ in Cross Bronx reimagining

Health

New York pols mobilize against Texas court ruling that could ban medication abortion

Posted on April 12, 2023

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Bronx Times

In Hunts Point visit, Gillibrand touts $50M effort to end food deserts and insecurity

Business

Pep rally for New York Liberty in Midtown supports Food Bank’s ‘Women to Women’ campaign

Posted on April 11, 2023

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Bronx Times

SUNY ditches COVID vaccine mandate, symbolizing the beginning of the end of the pandemic

Health

Competing U.S. court rulings put access to abortion pills in limbo

Posted on April 8, 2023

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Bronx Times

Poor oversight put group home residents at risk during pandemic: audit

Life expectancy for New Yorkers underwent significant decline during COVID, particularly for Black New Yorkers

Posted on April 7, 2023

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Harlem

Public hospital nurses rally outside Harlem Hospital and demand pay equity and more staffing

Posted on April 6, 2023

More from around NYC

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Mayoral candidate Michael Blake qualifies for $2M in matching funds just days before primary

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Mother and baby sprayed with unknown substance during M train assault in Long Island City: NYPD

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‘Undeniably Jonathan’: Arts Gowanus celebrates artist Jonathan Blum’s 60th birthday with retrospective art show

Mayor Eric Adams on NYC Pride, his LGBTQ record, gender-affirming care, and more