Global warming's threat to New York region and how to avoid severe consequences
On July 11 a team of leading scientists will release the most comprehensive study to date of the effects global warming will have on New York and its residents. The report examines potential consequences for coastal areas, marine fisheries, forests, agriculture, winter recreation and human health. The scientists will describe how efforts to manage global warming emissions today will determine th...Smoking rate has plummeted in New York City
New York Citys smoking rate has plummeted since a comprehensive program against smoking was launched in 2002, according to findings issued today in the national Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The 2006 rate was nearly 20% lower than the 2002 rate -- a decline that represents 240,000 fewer smokers. The Citys rate for 2006 is the lowest on...Mayor of New York proposes preventing 100 million deaths from tobacco
... ... The authors say: "Despite this enormous a...$2.6M grant awarded to New York University College of Nursing
New York, NY May 11, 2007 The Harford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing, in collaboration with the American Journal of Nursing, has been awarded a $2,622,560 grant from The John A Hartford Foundation to produce and distribute demonstration videos and a companion series of journal articles for teaching nurses the use of geriatric health assessment tools...More New Yorkers with AIDS died of 'common' causes in 2004 than in 1999
PHILADELPHIA, September 19, 2006 -- An analysis of 68,669 New York City residents with AIDS found that of those who died between 1999 and 2004, 26.3 percent died of non-HIV-related causes. This figure is a 32.8 percent increase from 19.8 percent in 1999.... The analysis, "Causes of Death among Persons with AIDS in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: New York City," is published in...GSA confers 2005 Joseph T. Freeman Award to New York Medical College's Aronow
Dr. Wilbert S. Aronow of the New York Medical College has been chosen by The Gerontological Society of America to receive its 2005 Joseph T. Freeman Award. This honor, given annually, is a lectureship in geriatrics and is awarded to a prominent physician in the field of aging-both in research and practice-who is a member of the Society's Clinical Medicine section.... ...The award presentation wil...Nerve-stimulation therapy for patients with treatment-resistant depression now available in New York
NEW YORK NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is the first in the greater New York City-area to offer Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) Therapy as a long-term treatment specifically approved by the FDA for treatment-resistant depression (TRD)....... VNS Therapy is approved as a long-term adjunctive (add-on) treatment for patients 18 years of age and older who are experien...Low colon cancer screening rates leaves a million New Yorkers at risk
Half of New York City residents over 50, the age at which the American Cancer Society recommends beginning screening tests, have not received a colon cancer-screening test within the recommended time intervals, according to a new study. The report, published in the September 1, 2005 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, says those New Yorkers least likely to hav...Response of New York City public school children to September 11
CHICAGO Six months after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, a high proportion of New York City school children had one or more probable anxiety/depressive disorders, according to an article in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....... The psychological consequences of a terror attack may be particularly great for children who...