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Health

Mayor’s bid to shift 250,000 public sector retirees to Medicare Advantage plans approved by MLC

Posted on March 9, 2023

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Politics

More help coming: NYC making mental health services available in family shelters

Posted on March 9, 2023

B-HEARD team members Morgan Nevins, Sedicah Powell and Salley May

How New York City’s ‘B-HEARD’ teams are changing the response to mental health emergencies

Posted on March 9, 2023

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Health

New York Blood Center declares 2023’s first blood emergency

Posted on March 7, 2023

Workers at Tyson Foods sue claiming lack of COVID protections

Posted on March 7, 2023

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Off with their masks! Mayor Adams says businesses should require that patrons remove face coverings to deter retail theft

Posted on March 6, 2023

Italy closes investigation alleging COVID lockdown failures

Posted on March 6, 2023

Following report on the origin of COVID-19, conspiracies soar

Posted on March 3, 2023

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Bronx Times

Bill to ban youth tackle football in New York state has been a decade in the making

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Bronx Times

The Bronx is once again a rallying point for nurses seeking better pay, staffing help

Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright and caregivers for the developmentally disabled

Politics

State legislator calls for pay hikes for caregivers who aid people with developmental disabilities

Posted on March 2, 2023

Take ’em off! Top NYPD official tells businesses to demand patrons remove masks in order to enter

Posted on March 2, 2023

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Business

Battery outage: City Council votes to ban reassembled e-bike batteries linked to serious fire hazards

Posted on March 2, 2023

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Health

EXCLUSIVE | To fight battery fires, new City Council bills would enact trade-in program, get fireproof containers to delivery workers

Posted on March 2, 2023

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Bronx Times

EMTs disciplined for speaking out about COVID-19 response to receive $30K each: courts

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Business

Potful of trouble: NYC stores skirting marijuana licensing rules, prompting legal confusion and safety concerns

Posted on March 1, 2023

China says it’s been ‘open and transparent’ on COVID origins

Posted on February 28, 2023

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Health

Op-ed | The city must clean up healthcare and hospitals pricing now

Posted on February 26, 2023

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Bronx Times

BREAKING: Montefiore residents vote to unionize with 82% supermajority vote

City Hall rally for bill to increase hospital price transparency in NYC

‘There is no transparency around hospital prices’: NYC Council Members rally for fair healthcare pricing

Posted on February 23, 2023

Those facing food insecurity received groceries from the West Side Campaign Against Hunger on Feb. 23 as COVID-era benefits hang in the balance.

‘A hunger Grand Canyon’: Concerns surge in New York as COVID-era benefits are set to end on March 1

Posted on February 23, 2023

Taiwan drops indoor mask mandate in restaurants, offices

Posted on February 21, 2023

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Bronx Times

Abortion care access explored at Morrisania Sexual Health Clinic, the first city-run clinic in the nation offering free abortion meds

China says it’s ‘decisively’ beaten pandemic, 200 million treated

Posted on February 17, 2023

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Health

Sickle cell patient meets blood donors who saved her life

Posted on February 16, 2023

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Health

Op-Ed | Why Congress must pass a ban on Copay Accumulators

Posted on February 16, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams speaks about migrant crisis funding

Health

Let’s split the tab: Adams admin wants Hochul to shoulder half of estimated $4.2B migrant crisis response

Posted on February 15, 2023

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‘It’s like a zombie land’: The sorry state of Sara Roosevelt Park a year after Christina Yuna Lee’s murder

Posted on February 15, 2023

GOP launches probe into COVID origins with letter to Fauci

Posted on February 15, 2023

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Health

New York Blood Center, Sickle Cell/‌Thalassemia Patient Network team up to encourage diverse blood donations

Posted on February 15, 2023

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Health

Runners strip down for charity during Cupid’s Undie Run

Posted on February 12, 2023

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Students at CUNY Medical School now have a robo-messaging service checking their mental health

Posted on February 10, 2023

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New York lets COVID-19 health care mask requirements lapse

Posted on February 10, 2023

Seoul lifts visa limits on short-term travelers from China

Posted on February 10, 2023

The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school

Posted on February 10, 2023

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Bronx Times

Food Bank for NYC aims to go ‘beyond food’ to address food insecurity in the Bronx

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Politics

City Council looks to codify changes to Mayor Adams’ mental health hospitalization directive

Posted on February 7, 2023

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Adams lifts city employee vaccine mandate, says fired workers must reapply for their jobs

Posted on February 6, 2023

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Health

DOT brings back student competition that promotes health and street safety

Posted on February 3, 2023

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Non-profit group holds prostate cancer screening events in Manhattan, says early detection is key

Posted on February 1, 2023

a patient at Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a nursing home facility, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from Walgreens pharmacist Annette Marshall, in Brooklyn

WHO: COVID still an emergency but nearing ‘inflection’ point

Posted on February 1, 2023

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Gay City News

NYC declares end to mpox outbreak as vaccination campaign continues

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Bronx Times

Mother Cabrini grants more than $4M to Bronx health care organizations

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Brooklyn Paper

Maimonides union workers fight for more funding, Medicaid reimbursement reform for safety-net hospitals

A group of VA nurses rallied outside the Manhattan VA demanding more nurses

Health

New York City VA nurses demand more nurse recruitment

Posted on January 26, 2023

US proposes once-a-year COVID shots for most Americans

Posted on January 26, 2023

Department of Buildings inspectors in Lower Manhattan

Health

EXCLUSIVE: Go on the job with the NYC Buildings Department during their Lower Manhattan safety sweep

Posted on January 25, 2023

The Baruch College campus of CUNY

CUNY requires students and employees to be fully vaccinated for Spring semester, but no need for boosters

Posted on January 21, 2023

More from around NYC

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NYC Parks unveils $2.6 million turf field upgrade at popular park in northwest Bronx

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Luxury fashion brand Moda Operandi to open distribution hub at Maspeth’s Pearl Building

NY: Teen Health Summit at Brooklyn Borough Hall

‘Summit to Success’ empowers Brooklyn high schoolers with life skills at Borough Hall

Outside of the US Supreme Court on Dec. 4.

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to implement trans military ban