TSA Officer Rescues Choking Traveler
A quick-thinking Transportation Security Administration officer last week saved a woman’s life after she began showing signs of choking while on a checkpoint line at…
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Council, Veteran Advocates Declare PTSD Awareness Day
Members of the City Council Veterans Committee on Wednesday were joined in Downtown Manhattan by Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton (Ret.), MD, commissioner of the Mayor’s…
City Unveils Plan to Hike Mental Healthcare Spending
Photo: First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray at Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday. Courtesy of Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. As part of the de Blasio…
Goldfeder Pushes for Proactive Pest-Control Plan
Photo: Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder this week called on the city to ramp up efforts to combat West Nile virus, a deadly mosquito-borne illness. Courtesy of Tenn….
Advocates Push for Reauthorization of Zadroga Act
Photo: Stricken Sept. 11 first responders and volunteers touted the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act last year at a clinic in Forest Hills. File…
Crime Chat: Focus on Prescription Drug Abuse
In the twenty-four years since I became District Attorney of Queens County, the dangers involving the misuse of prescription drugs have escalated at an alarming…
Administration Making Mental Healthcare a Priority
Photo: Chiara de Blasio (at podium) and her mom, First Lady Chirlane McCray, speak at an NYC Teen Text event. Courtesy of Demetrius Freeman/Mayoral Photography…
In Fitness and in Health: Howard Beach Couple Shaping Bodies and Minds
Photo: Jack and Corinne Wlody of Howard Beach last month accepted their service award from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Courtesy of the Wlodys. The writing is on the…
Wood No Good?; Schumer urges investigation of flooring company
Photo: Standing outside a New York City Lumber Liquidators showroom, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer this week urged the Consumer Product Safety Commission to immediately launch…
McDonald’s to Offer Chicken Free of Human Antibiotics
Earlier this month, McDonald’s USA announced that it would be making some major changes in the chicken and milk the company buys, and many in…
Vigorous Fitness: You Bring the Vim
For some time now, the boutique business revolution has been surging throughout the United States, as a result of upscale demands being made by savvy…
Mold: Identifying and Removing the Contamination
Last week, we used this space to define mold and how it can possibly affect your health and the well-being of the more vulnerable among…
The Toxic Aftermath of Flooding
Thanks to Superstorm Sandy, so many borough home and business owners are now intimately familiar with mold. The 2012 catastrophic weather event left swaths of…
Editorial: Measles Outbreak a Warning
Before 1963, when the measles vaccination was first introduced, an estimated three to four million people contracted the disease per year in the U.S. alone,…
Happy Valentina Day: Second Fundraiser Scheduled for Little Girl’s Heart Surgery
Born Feb. 15, 2013, Howard Beach girl Valentina Allen has already experienced more challenges that most of us face in a lifetime full of hard…