Health & Wellness
Life expectancy in the city recovers, unevenly by neighborhood
Our health desk traced the money, the timeline and the assumptions behind the announcement — including the one that may not hold.
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Public health, private medicine and everyday well-being across the five boroughs.
Health & Wellness
Maternal health teams expand into three underserved districts
A reported account from the health desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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Emergency departments pilot behavioral health triage
A reported account from the health desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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Air quality alerts become a routine summer feature
The numbers are modest and the second-order effects are not. What the record shows, and what the people affected say about it.
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Primary care shortages hit the outer boroughs hardest
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our health desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
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School mental health counselors reach a citywide ratio target
Support does not follow the usual borough lines. It follows density, transit and the age of the housing stock.
Health & Wellness
Overdose deaths fall for a second straight year
A reported account from the health desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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Heat illness planning moves indoors, to apartments
The numbers are modest and the second-order effects are not. What the record shows, and what the people affected say about it.
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Nurses' contract sets a new staffing benchmark
A reported account from the health desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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Long Covid clinics report what a decade of care may look like
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our health desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
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Food-as-medicine programs enter public hospital budgets
Our health desk traced the money, the timeline and the assumptions behind the announcement — including the one that may not hold.
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Vaccination outreach shifts from clinics to pharmacies
Support does not follow the usual borough lines. It follows density, transit and the age of the housing stock.
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Lead testing reaches every pre-1978 school building
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our health desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
Health & Wellness
Dialysis deserts persist despite new investment
Support does not follow the usual borough lines. It follows density, transit and the age of the housing stock.
Health & Wellness
Hospital price data reveal wide gaps across the harbor
The numbers are modest and the second-order effects are not. What the record shows, and what the people affected say about it.