Is Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx the worst hospital in the country? Consumer Reports thinks so. In a new report, the magazine ranked more than 1,000 hospitals in the nation based on the number [...]
Thursday, October 14, 2010
By Alysia Santo Eighteen-year-old Vas Vasolo and nineteen-year-old Hani Kinani are spending the evening at this hookah bar in Bay Ridge to share the sweet flavored “double apple” smoke and to hang out with [...]
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Patients and staff at Dr. Betty Shabazz Health Center in East New York discuss their biggest health worries. Mary Plummer reports.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Modeled after gun buy-back programs, a soda buy-back program is being sponsored by the Alliance for a Healthier New York at the New Lots Family Center in East New York. NY1 reports residents can trade [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Read the Brooklyn Ink’s novel take on the mumps outbreak. We ask what the long-term implications are of a disease that can cause reduced fertility in adolescent men.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are heading to immunization clinics around the city after a mumps outbreak—the largest U.S. outbreak in five years—has spread through the community.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
A Medicare approved Health Maintenance Organization with a prescription drug program with the government visits Bedford-Stuyvesant... in a truck.
Friday, November 20, 2009
People are talking about brain damage in football—not only in the NFL, but in high school ball as well. Daniel Roberts reports the sentiment from a number of BK football coaches and parents.
Friday, March 2, 2012
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