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By Winnie Hu The online banter was too steamy to ignore. Gregory Johnson, a soft-spoken young man using the screen name “Adonis,” talked up sex to several hundred of his closest Facebook friends this spring. Once he had their attention, … Continue reading →

          Originally published: June 5, 2013 6:36 PM Updated: June 5, 2013 10:06 PM By BART JONES bart.jones@newsday.com Community residents and civic leaders are protesting the pending sale — and possible demolition — of a magnificent … Continue reading →

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS At North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, motion sensors, like those used for burglar alarms, go off every time someone enters an intensive care room. The sensor triggers a video camera, which transmits its images halfway … Continue reading →

By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. In his 60s, overweight and in a wheelchair, the patient had been seeing doctors and nurses regularly for his diabetes. Only recently had they discovered a pressure sore after someone had finally, as he put it, … Continue reading →

By JIM DWYER Published: May 23, 2013 From age 12 on, Teofilo Ramos had been a great worker: delivery boy, day laborer, soup kitchen chef, reliable hand at drywall, trusted caretaker in a Hasidic village. So it was no surprise … Continue reading →

State officials today pulled the plug on its controversial plan to shut down Brooklyn’s Long Island College Hospital. The decision has hailed as huge victory by health-care professionals and local activists who fought hard to retain the cash-strapped 506-bed Cobble … Continue reading →

Eugene Evans, long time Jamaica, Queens resident, has formulated an exploratory Committee to investigate the feasibility of participating in the upcoming election for City Council District 28. The council position is presently held by Ruben Wills. Eugene Evans is the … Continue reading →

EXCLUSIVE: Missing cab driver found in Jamaica Hospital bed days after cracked skull, memory loss (Original article can be found here) Despite the bank card and checkbook in Israel Nunez’s pocket that revealed both his name and address, the livery … Continue reading →

by Dr. Robert Evans & Richard Wildzunas “Diabetes is a killing disease in the African American community, but a disease that may be controlled, according to James R. Gavin III, MD, chair of the American Diabetes Association’s African-American Program. “By … Continue reading →

Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, March 18, 2013  (original article) For the first time, providers, payers, and patients now have an enormous searchable database containing documents detailing about 8,000 serious federal safety rule violations—many of which have caused serious patient … Continue reading →