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City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.

Health

City Council passes legislation to strengthen maternal care supports

By Nelson A. King

Trinidadian attorney Gemma Thomas-Ahayse.

Health

‘The fright from the cancer diagnosis is still quite unbearable’: Trinidadian attorney Gemma Thomas-Ahyase

By Nelson A. King

Gov. Kathy Hochul addresses town hall meeting.

Health

Hochul signs new law to enhance insurance coverage for breast cancer screening and imaging

By Nelson A. King

Brooklyn resident and cancer survivor Dorothy Providence.

Health

Dorothy Providence breast cancer-free for 35 years

By Nelson A. King

US President Joseph Biden.

Health

Biden proclaims National Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2024

By Nelson A. King

Phlebotomist Jorge Hernandez, from the New York Blood Center, left with repeat donor, Michelle, and NYS Senator Kevin Parker at the 6th Annual Edward Swire Memorial Blood Drive, in collaboration with the Sons of Kings Lodge #123, in Fellowship Hall of Vanderveer Park United Methodist Church, on Sep. 21.

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Sen. Parker partners with Sons of Kings Lodge #123 for 6th annual Edward Swire Memorial Blood Drive

By Tangerine Clarke

NY: 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers show support for Haitian Community

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn healthcare workers stand with Haitian immigrants, denounce Trump’s ‘pet eating’ claims

Dara Mormile and her father, Joseph Mormile, taken three or four years before he died from Stage 4 Esophageal Cancer (EC) on Oct. 16, 2010.

Health

Brooklyn native hosts Annual Esophageal Cancer Awareness event

By Milette Millington

Dr. Michael Reinhardt.

Health

Downstate hospital’s mission empowers immigrant caregivers: Distinguished physician

By Nelson A. King

A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024.

Caribbean

CARICOM appeals for vigilance over mpox outbreak

By Bert Wilkinson

blank clipboard with modern stethoscope, space for messages.

Health

NYC Health + Hospitals appoints Dominican Republic, Trinidadian natives to top posts

By Nelson A. King

Paper with Medicaid and stethoscope. Medical insurance concept.

Health

Congresswoman Clarke leads bipartisan measure to prevent Medicaid cuts to NY hospitals

By Nelson A. King

Sept. 26, 2023 - Albany, NY - Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a news conference in the Red Room at the State Capitol.

Health

$27.5M to expand maternal and pediatric health care at Queens hospital

By Nelson A. King

NY state comptroller readies for a DACA fight

Health

‘Black women dying at over four times the rate of white women’: DiNapoli wants DOH to do more to reduce maternal deaths

By Nelson A. King

New variant of mpox virus, Clade I

Health

Caribbean countries urged to strengthen Mpox surveillance amid potential spread of new variant detected in African region

By Nelson A. King

Patients who found their new home through NYC Health Hospitals’ Housing for Health initiative

Health

Housing for Health initiative houses over 1,200 patients, families

By Nelson A. King

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Council Member Julie Won speaks during Wednesday's Council hearing on the OneLIC Neighborhood Plan. Photo: Emil Cohen/NYC Council Flickr.

CM Julie Won vows to vote against OneLIC Neighborhood Plan if neighborhood priorities are not included

man in shirt sits at court hearing for making terroristic threats against Zohran Mamdani

Queens DA charges Texas man with hate crimes for making terroristic threats against Zohran Mamdani

man in shirt sits at court hearing for making terroristic threats against Zohran Mamdani

Queens DA charges Texas man with hate crimes for making terroristic threats against Zohran Mamdani