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Health Care Policy

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Pregnant? Then Get an STD Test, for God's Sake

    A lot of pregnant women don't get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. But a lot of pregnant need to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, according to just released Centers for Disease Control stats. Out of some 1.3 million American women who had blood work during pregnancy, only 59 p ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 2, 2012

    A Foreign Affair

    Laugh along with David Sedaris at BAM

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Karaoke For The Blind? Jewish Guild Axes Music Therapy Due To Budget Woes, Pays For Karaoke No One Can See (Part 3)

    Part 3 in a series. (Part 1 is here, part 2 here.) Despite being axed by the Jewish Guild for the Blind after working as their part-time music therapist for two decades, and despite having the organization lie to her clients that she cancelled on them, music therapist Debbie Moran is lobbying on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Bed Bugs: Are They Back?

    This just in from the Daily News: a most troubling report suggests that the early onset of warm weather could prompt swarms of stink bugs -- and other creepy crawlies -- to invade America! (Invade!) Of course, Runnin' Scared wondered: What about bed bugs? Indeed, past reports on bed bugs kinda m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Rick Santorum Opposes Prenatal Testing, Women

    ​Rick Santorum doesn't think that insurance companies should have to pay for a simple diagnostic test that determines whether a baby will be born sick or severely disabled. Santorum, who is so anti-abortion that he would make his own daughter carry a rape-baby to term, thinks that amniocente ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Street Kids: Groups Want to Make NYC Roads Child Safe

    Remember, back in the day, when you used to go outside and scamper around the streets of New York with all the other rosy-cheeked neighborhood kids, playing stickball and tag and hopscotch as the summer sun sank gently into the horizon? No? Well, not to worry, Runnin' Scared doesn't either -- and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Ask the Critics: Do Restaurants Have to Offer Restrooms?

    ​Sharon S. asks: I was in a small restaurant the other day and when I asked where the restroom was, I was told there wasn't one. I thought any place that served food had to offer toilets. Am I mistaken? What's the rule? Dear Sharon: I had actually been under the same impression, but the law is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Mayor Bloomberg Criticizes Obama Administration's Decision on Plan B

    ​A "haggard-looking and hoarse-voiced" Mayor Bloomberg critiqued U.S. Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius' decision tp prohibit girls under 17 from buying the morning-after pill over the counter. On December 7, Sebelius overruled a decision by FDA commissioner Margaret Hambur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2011

    One Psycho at a Time in New Museum's 'Psycho Tank' After City Crackdown

    NOT Carsten Höller's 'Psycho Tank'​Psycho Tank, part of Carsten Höller's "Experience" exhibit at the New Museum, just got a little less psycho. The instillation calls for up to six visitors to disrobe, shower, and float in a highly saline bath in order to provide a unique sensory-deprivation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Mars Bar Closed for Good?

    ​After much speculation about its closure, the famed Mars Bar ceased operation today. Sitting outside of the dive, owner Hank Penza told us he shut the place down on Monday afternoon. "I closed up," he said. "I don't want to be bothered." Penza said this is it for the bar's location on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Human Cheese Rears Its Ugly Head Once More, Hopefully for the Last Time

    ​Stealing nourishment from babies yet again. Num, num, num Well, Miriam Simun is at it again. You'll remember she'll the gal that, in pursuit of an M.F.A. in Interactive Telecommunications, has proposed turning women into farm animals by way of using their milk to make human cheese. Proving, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Barack Obama's Birth Certificate: Here It Is! But Something About It Looks Fishy...

    ​Kenya, East Africa?! It says so right there on the paper... (Haha, just kidding.) That's the birthplace of Obama's father, who shares the name Barack Hussein Obama, but was not birthed on August 4, 1961. Our president was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Shut up, birther idiots. Shut up, Donald Trum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    9/11 Responders Must Show They're Not Terrorists Before Receiving Benefits

    ​The new 9/11 health bill requires "tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake" to prove to the government that they're not terrorists before they can receive medical care, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Today in El Diario: Alcohol's Deadly Toll

    ​Drowning in drink New Yorkers drink a lot, so there's always a steady stream of hospitalizations and emergency room visits because of booze, and some of the city's immigrant communities are leading the way, according to the Spanish-language daily. In 2009, alcohol led to 70,000 emergency room ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Anthony Weiner is Taking Questions on Reddit

    ​To mark the 1st anniversary of President Barack Obama's health care reform, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York's 9th congressional district is taking questions on the popular social news site Reddit. The "IAmA" section, which has been home to people dying (but actually lying) and Jeopardy! champ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Michael Bloomberg to Cut 10,000 Jobs by 2012

    If you were excited about yesterday's news that New York City's unemployment rate had dipped, think again. Private businesses may have added 40,000 jobs last month, but if you're a city employee, watch out: The New York Times reports that Mayor Bloomberg's quarterly budget modification, announced ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Pigeons: They're Not That Bad

    ​Today in City Room's Complaint Box, where curmudgeons go to curmudgeon-ify, there's a charming little entry about New York's most common bird. Author Louise Dreier's Upper West Side neighbors have a pigeon nest, horror of horrors, and she's not going to stand for it anymore.

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate

    ​The election of Republican Scott Brown to replace the deceased Ted Kennedy in the Senate from Massachusetts yesterday destroys the Democrats' 60-vote supermajority, widely presumed to be needed for passage of a health care bill, or so it would seem from headlines ("House Dems largely reject i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Nate Silver Predicts Republican Odds of Victory in Today's Senate Race are "3:1"

    When Nate Silver talks...​New York is looking to the North today as Martha Coakley attempts to keep Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat for the Democrats. The Massachusetts senate race has the cover of the Post and has President Obama pleading with New York Democrats (via e-mail) to report to a phon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    Senate Passes Health Care Bill; Democrats Doomed, Say Rightbloggers

    ​The Senate passed its version of the health care bill this morning on a straight party vote. The bill now has to be reviewed by the House of Representatives and reconciled with its own bill, which will probably take some time, especially as President Obama is now also pushing for a new jobs b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    New Plan to Defeat Health Care Bill: GOP Lawsuits!

    ​It looks like the Democrats might pass some sort of health care bill after all, so the badly outnumbered Republicans are looking at new strategy to block it: make pork illegal. "Attorneys general in at least 10 states" of a mostly reddish hue, the Times reports, have discussed a legal strat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2009

    Health alert issued for mumps outbreak in Brooklyn

    ​The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued an alert (pdf) to healthcare providers in response to a record mumps outbreak in New York and New Jersey. The CDC traced the path of infection back to an asymptomatic 11-year-old boy who carried it from an epidemic in England to an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Take the NYC Condom Wrapper Challenge! City Seeks Designs

    ​The Department of Health invites you to design the next New York City condom. Yes, those rebranded LifeStyles condoms the city has been handing out like parking tickets for decades are getting a makeover and the Bloomberg Administration is giving citizens a crack at a certain kind of immortal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Stephen Colbert Takes America to Task on 'Weightism'

    Even though "being overweight is as American as eating a whole apple pie," it appears that society is still prejudiced against the obese. An amendment to the proposed healthcare bill that would reward people for losing weight inspired Stephen Colbert to rant about the issue of "weightism" in Ameri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Fort Defiance Battles the DOH

    According to the Fort Defiance website, the Red Hook bar and restaurant has been shuttered by the Department of Health thanks to "nonfunctional gas cooking equipment in the kitchen." Apparently, a restaurant with gas equipment but no gas service is a DOH no-no. Fortunately, St. John Frizell, Fort De ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Dole Goes Public Again; Vendy Finalists Announced

    ​Dole Food has filed the paperwork to go public, the second time it has done so after going private in 2003. The company, currently owned by LA billionaire David Murdock, hopes to raise $500 million. [NY Times] Since Whole Foods CEO John Mackey publicly criticized President Obama's health car ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Obama Health Care Town Hall Not So Noisy as Previous Versions

    We came in late on the Obama Health Care Town Hall Meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but from the way MSNBC had the sound engineered -- Obama and questioners loud, background sound low -- we expect we didn't miss much of the now-traditional yelling, if it occurred -- though we're sure YouTube ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Blue Dye May Save Spines; Is a Fat Tax the Answer to Health Care Woes?

    ​A common and safe blue food dye called brilliant blue G -- a close relative of the popular dye Blue no. 1 -- was found to be useful in treating spinal cord injuries in rats by crossing into the spinal fluid and helping to block inflammation. [Reuters] President Obama's health-care reforms in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Former NY Health Commissioner, U.S. Surgeon General Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Will Do Community Service

    Back in May, when fraud charges were brought against former New York health commissioner and U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, her lawyer said it was a frame: "there are people who are vindictive and who've wanted to get her ever since she left the state." He still seems to think so -- "politics ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Babbo Shuttered!

    Greenwich Village stalwart Babbo was closed by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in an unusual late-night raid. The bar crowd and a handful of patrons still dining were swept out onto the sidewalk around midnight as the chef, his signature orange clogs slapping on the pavement, was le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Obama Calls for Safer Food

    In an interview on the Today show earlier today, President Obama said the Food and Drug Administration needs to step it up. With a salmonella outbreak in peanut butter blamed for eight deaths and sickening over 500 people, Obama said he wants to examine how the agency operates. "I think that the FDA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    Gotbaum Rates the STD Clinics: Chelsea's the Worst

    In an interview on the Today show earlier today, President Obama said the Food and Drug Administration needs to step it up. With a salmonella outbreak in peanut butter blamed for eight deaths and sickening over 500 people, Obama said he wants to examine how the agency operates. "I think that the FDA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    New York Looks to Obama Presidency, Predicts "Shitstorms"

    In an interview on the Today show earlier today, President Obama said the Food and Drug Administration needs to step it up. With a salmonella outbreak in peanut butter blamed for eight deaths and sickening over 500 people, Obama said he wants to examine how the agency operates. "I think that the FDA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2007

    Infant Morality

    In an interview on the Today show earlier today, President Obama said the Food and Drug Administration needs to step it up. With a salmonella outbreak in peanut butter blamed for eight deaths and sickening over 500 people, Obama said he wants to examine how the agency operates. "I think that the FDA ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2007

    No More Scars

    A notorious boob doc is shut down with finality. The lawsuits, however, are still ballooning

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2007

    Syphilis Cases Double Thus Far in '07

    A notorious boob doc is shut down with finality. The lawsuits, however, are still ballooning

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2007

    Your Booty May Be Contaminated

    A notorious boob doc is shut down with finality. The lawsuits, however, are still ballooning

  • News

    April 24, 2007

    Green Card Negative

    We haven't been able to keep out immigrants based on their HIV status. But should we worry about it?

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2006

    No Recount Needed: 23 Dead in 9 Days

    We haven't been able to keep out immigrants based on their HIV status. But should we worry about it?

  • News

    April 11, 2006

    The HIV Watchers

    Aspects of proposed bill meet stiff resistance

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1983

    Aspects of proposed bill meet stiff resistance

  • People

    October 11, 2005

    Listings

    Affordable health care and services for women

  • News

    April 19, 2005

    Baby Madness

    How one young woman's delusions cost her years of freedom

  • News

    July 6, 2004

    One Sick Fall

    With health insurance out of reach, a generation braces itself for the worst

  • News

    September 19, 2000

    Saving Babies

    Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

  • News

    April 4, 2000

    Giving It Away

    An American Pharmaceutical Giant Offers to Donate an AIDS Drug to South Africa

  • News

    April 4, 2000

    The Shrink Brigade

    Therapists Take On Managed Care

  • News

    January 11, 2000

    A New Kind of Crisis

    The Security Council Declares AIDS in Africa a Threat to World Stability

  • News

    December 15, 1998

    Problem Pregnancy

    Doctors regard AZT as an AIDS vaccine for babies. But South Africa says it's too expensive.

  • News

    May 19, 1998

    Starve and Sever

    Is the Mayor Trying To Get Out of the Hospital Business?

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