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Disability rights advocates call for improved access to early voting
Election Day is Tuesday for the Queens Special Election Assembly, in District 27 — an area that stretches from Far Rockaway to Howard Beach and Woodhaven — and early voting is underway. For many New Yorkers with disabilities, casting a ballot has historically been fraught with issues, from steep ramps and narrow doorways to broken…
Here’s what you need to know about community health workers
It’s the end of the first ever National Community Health Worker Awareness Week. This campaign celebrates the work and impact of community health workers (CHWs) — frontline workers whose shared experiences and deep knowledge of the communities they serve often help patients navigate health and social service needs. At the peak of the pandemic, they…
It’s International Overdose Awareness Day. More needs to be done.
Today is International Overdose Awareness Day, though unfortunately too many New Yorkers are intimately aware of the dangers. In 2021, almost 2,700 people officially died of overdoses in New York City, an increase of 565 over 2020, and the numbers do not seem to have really improved. This week, Gov. Hochul pledged $8 million in…
A NYC woman was found dead in a stairwell at a health clinic. Her cause of death reminds us about inequities in cardiovascular health.
News of the patient who died at Montefiore’s Family Health Center in the Bronx — and whose body wasn’t discovered until five days later, as POLITICO reported last week — shocked New Yorkers and national audiences alike. The body of 57-year-old Sary Mao, a Cambodian resident of the Bronx and longtime member of advocacy group…
Covid is surging again… does anyone care?
There’s a decent enough chance that you or someone in your life has contracted Covid in the last few weeks, part of a recent spike that’s seen NYC’s seven-day average for confirmed and probable cases climb from the 200s in early July to the 700s mid-August. This is almost certainly a dramatic undercount given how much less testing…
There’s a new directory of Asian therapists. We talked to one
Mental health and Asian Americans. We wish those two were uttered in the same breath a lot more, and the end of this month gives us an opportunity to do so. May marks both Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Month. Thus, we want to showcase this revolutionary directory of the…
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