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Giving pedestrians a 7-second head start at traffic lights—known as Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs)—is associated with a ...
The operational cleavage between the US public health and medical care systems contributed to the country’s difficulty in containing community spread of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first months ...
SNAP-Ed funds nutrition education, and anti-obesity initiatives, reaching more than 2 million New Yorkers last year. Under ...
The Hub in the South Bronx, centered around East 149th Street and Third Avenue, has become ground zero in New York City’s ...
Just as a doctor might diagnose a patient based on symptoms and environmental exposures, Houghton and Castillo-Salgado’s ...
A New York health initiative positions food and nutrition, often referred to as “Food as Medicine,” as essential health ...
Former CDC director Tom Frieden explains the damage RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are doing to public health.
According to Daliah Heller, vice president of overdose prevention initiatives at the global public health nonprofit Vital Strategies, naloxone distribution used to be determined by state ...
The NYC Health Department has complied a list of resources, as well as guidance to protect one’s mental, sexual, and physical health during Pride Month.
Six months into the year, health officials in New York tout the steep decline in overdose deaths as proof that public health initiatives have had major success. They hope the trend continues.