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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

 

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

 

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