Health & Wellness

How Love, Art and Her UPS Driver Got Bushwick Artist Allie Olson Through Breast Cancer Treatment

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Allie Olson tells us about the power of community, gratitude, art and the viral friendship with her UPS driver.

Oct 22, 2021 3:51 PM Read more >

How Many Lives Have Coronavirus Vaccines Saved? We Used State Data on Deaths and Vaccination Rates to Find Out

Our model suggests that vaccines saved 140,000 lives by May 9, 2021.

Oct 21, 2021 11:00 AM Read more >

NYC Health Department to Expand Anti-Racism Work With New Board of Health Resolution

NYC declared racism a public health crisis in 2020 and now the Board of Health has passed a resolution that includes several actions to support anti-racism work

Oct 19, 2021 11:45 AM Read more >

Bed-Stuy’s Woodhull Hospital Adds 16 Exam Rooms and More in $5M Expansion

The 5,000 square feet expansion includes the exam rooms, a new nurse’s station, a new isolation room and more

Oct 15, 2021 2:54 PM Read more >

Vaccination Against COVID-19 Supports a Healthy Pregnancy by Protecting Both Mother and Child - an Immunologist Explains the Maternal Immune Response

The CDC has reiterated the importance of vaccination in preventing severe illness and death resulting from COVID-19.

Oct 14, 2021 2:30 PM Read more >

Nonprofit Gets $1.4M Grant to Support Mental Health Services for Brooklyn Seniors

Institute for Community Living was awarded the grant by the federal government to support services for mental health and substance abuse for Brooklyn seniors

Oct 13, 2021 1:29 PM Read more >

Kids and Their Computers: Several Hours a Day of Screen Time is OK, Study Suggests

Even when kids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television or text – it doesn’t appear to be harmful.

Oct 12, 2021 1:28 PM Read more >

Brooklyn COVID-19 Update: Mandates in Effect, Cases Increase in Brownsville

Vaccine mandates are now in effect for public school and health care workers in New York. As of Oct. 1, Brooklyn had the lowest number of vaccinated health care workers in the city.

Oct 8, 2021 1:13 PM Read more >

Is Social Distancing Unraveling the Bonds That Keep Society Together?

Social distancing is vital to combating COVID-19. But is it unraveling the social bonds that keep society together?

Oct 6, 2021 5:49 PM Read more >

Vaccination Linked to Reductions in Hospitalizations and Death of NY Seniors: New Report

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report shows COVID-19 vaccinations may have helped prevent roughly 16,000 new COVID-19 infections in seniors in New York

Oct 5, 2021 3:28 PM Read more >