Seeking to combat rising obesity rates, the New York City Board of Health approved on Thursday a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, street carts and movie theaters, enacting the first restriction of its kind in the country. Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomberg, Bryant Park, Christine C. Quinn, City Council, Columbia University, Dr. Deepthiman K. Gowda, Joel A. Forman, Maimonides Medical Center, Michael Bloomberg, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, Pamela Brier, Soft drink, Thursday, United States
The Witness Project® of Harlem, which is sponsored by the Greater New York Susan G. Komen Foundation and the Ruttenberg Cancer Prevention & Control at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is based on an educational model first developed at the University of Arkansas in 1991 in response to racial disparities in breast cancer. Continue reading
Last year, HW wrote a small editorial about a big project regaring Samantha Zuckerman, a second year medical student and fellow second year medical student Romit Bhattacharya who are Co-Directors of MedStart, a Summer Enrichment Program. Continue reading
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Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that children living near the Kiteezi landfill in Kampala, Uganda, have blood lead levels nearly 20 times as high as the typical lead level found in U.S. children. Continue reading
Grammy® Award-winning singer Patti LaBelle talks about living with diabetes, wellness and prevention to members of the East and Central Harlem communities from 12 Noon to 12:15 p.m. at OUR HEALTH. OUR FUTURE, the Seventh Annual Community Health Fair sponsored by students from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, being held Continue reading
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Tagged Grammy® Award-winning, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Patti Labelle
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