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NYC health agenda: Dishing out calorie content of items on the menu

New York City’s health department is chewing upon the idea of listing the calorie content of the food available on the menu in restaurants // that dish out consistent portions. Fast-food brands have not been able to digest this proposition too well. They fear that this would make an apology of the fast food concept, which seems to race with time in reaching food to the table. .. ..Commenting o...

NYC Trains Delayed Due to Fainting Dieters

According to a recent analysis by Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Sick subway passengers who faint from dizziness due to excessive dieting are among the top// causes, after the track works and signal problems, for the delay in US subway. ..Asim Nelson, a transit emergency medical technician said that Subway-Disruptions Analysis of MTA statistics, taken between October 2005 and October 20...

More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough

New York city’s mayor Michael Bloomberg has called for more funds to flow, for those connected with the September 11 terrorist// attacks on New York City. .. He was speaking at a meeting where he released the first comprehensive profile on existing health needs of 9/11 victims. .. The 83-page script was released more than five years after doctors first noticed that rescue and recovery workers e...

NYC Mayor Raises Questions About Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention Method

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has raised questions about plans recently announced by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to launch a campaign// promoting male circumcision. The campaign was recommended by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS as a way to help reduce the spread of HIV, the New York Times reports. ....Following the health department's announcement, Bloomberg of...

Many NYC Pharmacies Fail to Translate Prescription Labels for Patients Who Don't Understand English

Despite widespread capacity to provide prescription medication labels in languages other than English, few New York City pharmacies do so and as a result//, limited-English patients face serious risk of medication error, according to a study by The New York Academy of Medicine presented today at the annual meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) in Toronto, Ontario. ...."Imag...

Three Cases of Hepatitis C Points Finger at One NYC Doctor

A NYC doctor along with the anesthesia seemed to have passed on the infection of hepatitis C to his patients. Three cases have come to the fore. The New York health official have urged 4500 patient of this doctor to test for hepatitis C, a virus that can damage or destroy the liver. ......Three people treated by the doctor in August were diagnosed with hepatitis C in recent months, the health d...