Our community, Harlem, suffers from the highest rates of heart disease, hypertension, type II diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity in New York City. Continue reading
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Tagged Fast food, Harlem Harvest Festival, Health, Heart Disease, Hypertension
According to the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the life expectancy for New Yorkers is at an all time high, with life expectancy at 79.4 years. However, according to this report, men continue to die six years younger than women, 76 vs 82 years with more than 1/3 of deaths among NYC men occurring before the age of 65. Let’s forget about statistics for a moment, take a look at your family, how many men past away before the age of 65? I know in my family the majority of men died before 60 much less 65!! Why is this the case? And what can be done about it?
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Tagged cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Dr. Nelson, Families, Health, Heart Disease, Injuries, Kidney Disease, Living, Men, Prevention, stroke, Suicide
New York City wants to take its tough smoking ban outdoors. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials announced Wednesday that they will pursue a broad extension of the city’s smoking ban to parks, beaches, marinas, boardwalks and pedestrian plazas throughout the city. Continue reading
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Tagged Audrey Silk, Cigarette, Health, Michael Bloomberg, Smoking ban, tobacco
Health
Starting today, New York City smokers will have to pay $11 or more for a pack of cigarettes. The $1.60 New York State tax increase will push the cost of cigarettes to more than $300 a month and $4,000 a year for people smoking a pack a day. Continue reading
Health
The 5th Annual Women As The Face of AIDS Summit is only 2 days away. This year’s event has been expanded to 2 days-Thursday, June 24 and Saturday, June 26 to coincide with National HIV Testing Day. It promises to be two wonderful days of informative sessions and exciting topics such as parenting while positive, the impact of incarceration on HIV rates, housing stability, mental health and treatment adherence, what the faith based communities are doing and much more.
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Making a last-ditch effort to save his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Monday put forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year compromise that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriated consumers.
Posted Monday morning on the White House Web site, the plan would provide coverage to more than 31 million Americans now uninsured without adding to the federal deficit. It comes just four days before Obama’s one-of-a-kind, televised health care summit with Democrats and Republicans. Continue reading
Health
The Health Department’s Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) today announced the launch of a new program to help primary-care physicians combat preventable health problems. Under the so-called Panel Management program, outreach specialists will work with physicians to identify patients in need of preventive health services such as cholesterol management or blood pressure control, and encourage them to make appointments for care and treatment. PCIP has equipped more than 1,700 New York City medical practices with electronic health records that highlight patients’ health risks before they cause acute conditions such as heart attack or stroke. The new program, which is largely funded by Pfizer Inc., will help ensure that patients do not miss opportunities to act on this information and receive follow-up care. Continue reading
Health
By Julie Steenhuysen for Reutera
Mammograms should begin at 40 for women with an average risk of breast cancer and by 30 for high-risk women, according to guidelines released on Monday by two groups that specialize in breast imaging, contradicting controversial guidelines from a U.S. advisory panel last year.
The joint recommendations from the American College of the Radiology and the Society of Breast Imaging take into account the success of annual mammography screening starting at 40, said Dr. Carol Lee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, whose study appears in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Continue reading
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