Health News – Bronx Times

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Health

Blink Fitness ‘Empower Hour’ offers free weight lifting education for Women’s History Month

By Aliya Schneider

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Longwood

Free clinic to expand South Bronx services with new Longwood facility

By Robbie Sequeira

Ilene Arroyo of The New Jewish Home honored with McNight’s Women of Distinction award

By Aliya Schneider

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AMNY

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

Cleft awareness

Health

Bronx middle schooler born with a cleft, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA winners team up to talk awareness, self-love

By Robbie Sequeira

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PHOTOS | Jacobi nurses hold COVID-19 vigil as union contract expires

By Paige Perez

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Health

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

By Robbie Sequeira

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Health

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

By Robbie Sequeira

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AMNY

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

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AMNY

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

EMTs win free speech lawsuit.

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

By Robbie Sequeira

Food insecurity

Health

State comptroller calls for expanded SNAP benefits; 1 in 4 Bronxites face food insecurity

By Robbie Sequeira

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AMNY

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

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AMNY

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

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Health

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

By Aliya Schneider

Flu Vaccine

Flu vaccine worked well in season that faded fast, CDC says

By Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer

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