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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

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 worked well in season that faded fast, CDC says

By Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer

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Morrisania

Abortion care access explored at Morrisania Sexual Health Clinic, the first city-run clinic in the nation offering free abortion meds

By Robbie Sequeira

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Health

Bronx residents give the gift of life at Red Cross blood drive

By Bronx Times

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New York lets COVID-19 health care mask requirements lapse

By Associated Press

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Health

Jacobi, North Central Bronx hospitals celebrate Dr. Solymole Kuruvilla

By Bronx Times

City Councilmember Pierina Sanchez is pictured in this undated photo.

Health

Bronx pols, advocates push for express HIV/AIDS testing clinics in Black communities

By Bronx Times

The Bronx has one of nation's highest rates of the food insecurity, and last year Food Bank provided nearly 32 million free meals to the borough, which accounts for more than 26% of the organization's total meal distribution across the five boroughs.

Food Bank for NYC aims to go ‘beyond food’ to address food insecurity in the Bronx

By Robbie Sequeira

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Sixth Circuit Court rushes to beat Supreme Court in ruling on conversion therapy ban