Health Insurance -- Looking For A Model
May 04, 2006
Nearly every person in Massachusetts will have health insurance by next July, officials there claimed recently, thanks to a plan that combines government action with responsibilities
Diabetes in NYC
Mar 22, 2006
 New York City is getting healthier, with fewer people smoking, fewer new cases of HIV, even fewer people dying; the city’s death rate recently hit a historic low. But
A One-Two Punch To Hospitals: The Proposed Federal and State Budgets
Feb 15, 2006
Each day, over 250 people visit the emergency room at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn. And each day the hospital loses more than $75,000 treating them -- adding
The Heroes Of 9/11 Are Getting Sick
Jan 30, 2006
Detective James Zadroga was inside 7 World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001. He escaped –- barely –- when the building collapsed. But Zadroga could not escape
The Need for Healthier Schools
Dec 12, 2005
Most people think all asbestos was removed from New York City public schools years ago. So participants in a New York State Assembly hearing on healthy schools earlier this year
Without Health Insurance
Dec 05, 2005
A woman from Pastor Ebenezer Martinez’s church was recently bit by a dog, and ended up spending a week in the hospital. Neither the woman nor her husband had
Bird Flu
Nov 24, 2005
For all the attention to the bird flu, discussions of its potential dangers are, for the time being, hypothetical. The disease may never spread from birds to any large
New York's Grocery Gap
Nov 21, 2005
The South Bronx feeds the region. Eighty percent of the metropolitan area’s fresh produce and 40 percent of its fresh meat comes through the
Providing Fresh Food, and a Sense of Accomplishment
Nov 18, 2005
Joanna Willins has sold produce along an East New York Street in 1999. At first she worked alone, but today many other vendors join her under an elevated subway line
Nursing New York City Back to Health
Oct 24, 2005
Last week nurses in New York City’s public hospitals used their break time to stand in front of three of their hospitals, bringing a message of protest to Mayor Michael |