Posts tagged "health"
At the Nao Salon and Spa, a revolutionary machine helps clients shed pounds before the holiday parties. World famous Japanese con man, er, healer Sensei Kazuo Maeda brought his Ryu- Jitsu (“Dragon Magic”) machine to town, and for $350—pocket change—the two hour treatment has attracted so many blubber-crazed customers that the spa already has a four-year wait list.
The Ryu-Jitsu, the first of its kind in the United States, is a three-step treatment that starts with 15 minutes “on the passive [...]
Posted in The City on December 30th, 2006 | 
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Anjalee Daryani health
CARS MEAN 52,000 FEWER JOBS IN NEW YORK CITY AND A $13 BILLION HOLD IN THE CITY’S BUDGET, says a prominent business coalition. “Traffic congestion is now a brake on the economy,” said the brilliantly eloquent Kathryn S. Wylde, chief executive of the Partnership for New York City.
The equally sound-bite savvy Environmental Defense Fund claims less cars would “cut air pollution and, as a result, illnesses like asthma.”
One proposal to reduce traffic: a $7 fee on all cars and trucks [...]
Posted in The City on December 25th, 2006 | No Comments »
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health Russell Karpov traffic
According to New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 10% of men who say they are straight had sex with at least one man during the past twelve months; 70% of these are married. Many of these same men admit they don’t use condoms and have not been tested for HIV. In fact, researchers found that straight men who sexed other men during the previous year were less likely to use a condom than sexually-active gay men.
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Posted in The City on December 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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health Michael Rego
THE SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AUTHORITY NOW SAYS IT WON’T BUILD FOUR NEW BRONX SCHOOLS ON THE LAND BETWEEN CONCOURSE VILLAGE WEST AND EAST 156TH STREET (map) because, inexplicably, the site is a mercury and benzene dumping ground, says NYI. The Mott Haven Campus schools were to house 2,200 students, and the city promised to spend $30 million to clean up the site, but parents are skeptical. Some say health problems have already started since construction began. Chaira Salem says that soon [...]
Posted in The City on December 21st, 2006 | No Comments »
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health real estate Teshia Sooklal
Recharger, at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn last week to visit his uncle recovering from a heart attack, noticed that “the pre-eminent treatment facility and academic medical center in the Borough of Brooklyn” gives garbage a good name. “I don’t want to be here anymore- you’re lucky. You get to leave,” said Rose Chen, in for chronic depression. Then she showed us her room. Because orderlies hadn’t cleaned for three days, trash was piled up, her bed was unmade, old [...]
Posted in The City on December 14th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Bizarre Brooklyn health Susan Cruz
Ever since reading Travels with Lisbeth, the memoir by Lars Eighner, an obese college professor who spent three homeless years eating from Dumpsters, Recharger has understood that the poor are fatter. They also have more diabetes, according to a new report from The New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Obesity and diabetes rates are higher in poor neighborhoods because, says the NYCCAH report, instead of fruit and vegetable stands, poor people eat cheap, fried food from fast-food restaurants and bodegas.
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Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on November 15th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Darren Xu health how the other half lives
According to an August 2004 “repeated surveillance” study done by The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), re-released this month, 85,386 people in New York City live with HIV, and the disease is on the rise in most New York City communities.
Homosexual men made up the largest percentage with a reported 61% of an estimated 27,689 new cases. Among females, 77% were infected through heterosexual contact. The infection rate through intravenous drug use accounted for 15% of male infections [...]
Posted in The City on September 26th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Cheryl Campbell health
The NYC Health Department reports that while infant mortality rates (IMR) decreased in New York City last year, from 6.1 infant deaths to 6.0 (per thousand), minorities still suffer. African-Americans mortality rates have dropped from 11.6 in 2004 to 9.7 (per thousand), and 7.5 to 6.7 among Puerto Ricans. Yet these groups have the highest IMR rate in New York City, though not as high as the national average of 6.8 deaths per 1000.
– Nicole De Leon
Posted in The City on September 26th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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health Nicole De Leon
It’s a true fact, according to the city’s health department. Compared to New Yorkers born here, immigrants smoke less, drink less, are thinner, and are less likely to contract HIV. And, they are less likely to have a regular doctor, mainly because of language barriers.
Weirdly, the DOH study recommends ways for immigrants to improve their health, including access to medical literature printed in their langauge.
Fat American protesting skinny immigrants.
Here’s a link.
– Aye Hnin Phyu
Posted in The City on July 24th, 2006 | No Comments »
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