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NY: Baltic Welless

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Brooklyn mental health leaders explore how AI is shaping loneliness

By Gabriele Holtermann

Inside the Irving Square restroom in Brooklyn. The stainless-steel bathroom includes a toilet, hand sanitizer, baby changing station, and slatted openings for ventilation and safety.

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FIRST ON amNY | NYC EDC puts out call for vendors to design new modular public restrooms

NY: National Female Physicians Day

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Breaking barriers in the OR: A day in the life of the women surgeons leading Maimonides

By Gabriele Holtermann

maimonides neurology opening

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A new chapter in women’s health care: Maimonides celebrates grand opening of Women’s Neurology Center

By Gabriele Holtermann

NY: NY Mets and New York Blood Center run blood drive

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New York Blood Center urges donations as shortage hits during National Blood Donor Month

By Gabriele Holtermann

NYU lachlan exterior movement disorder clinic

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NYU Langone Hospital celebrates 10-year anniversary of merger with Lutheran Medical Center

By Gabriele Holtermann

mural at woodhull medical center

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‘Therapy for the Soul’: Woodhull Medical Center unveils first-of-its-kind systemwide mural

By Gabriele Holtermann

maimonides nurses strike NYSNA

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Nurses strike avoided at Brooklyn safety-net hospitals as unions, execs reach tentative agreements

By Kirstyn Brendlen

maimonides weight management center

Health

‘It’s been quite a journey’: Maimonides marks one year of Weight Management Center

By Gabriele Holtermann

people dressed in red at a podium

AMNY

Nurses strike threat: Deals near with five ‘safety net hospitals,’ but 17,000 caregivers still posed to walk off job next week

a man behind a counter in a pharmacy assisting a patient

AMNY

Flu blues in NYC: Influenza cases spike across five boroughs in first days of 2026

NYC public nurses win

AMNY

Nurses strike looming: Up to 20,000 caregivers issue 10-day warning for biggest walkout in NYC history

first baby

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Maimonides welcomes Brooklyn’s first baby of 2026

By Gabriele Holtermann

maimonides CEO

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Maimonides will merge with NYC Health+Hospitals next year, officials say

By Kirstyn Brendlen

NY: Maimonides Cancer Toy Drive

Health

‘Just being kids’: Maimonides’ holiday party brings joy to pediatric patients

By Gabriele Holtermann

hera affordable senior care

Health

New tech company, Hera, seeks to offer affordable care for aging New Yorkers

By Kirstyn Brendlen

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Check Presentation

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$2M in city funding to transform Wyckoff Heights’ neonatal care, ‘where life starts’

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil & Paul Frangipane

The NYC AIDS Memorial on World AIDS Day. The city issues its annual HIV surveillance report in conjunction with World AIDS Day.

Gay City News

‘Progress has stalled’: New HIV infections increased in NYC in 2024, surveillance report shows

Dancers at the Cristian Rivera Foundation Gala raising money for DIPG research.

AMNY

Cristian Rivera Foundation Gala raises millions to advance DIPG research

people at Sauna Comedy enjoy hearing jokes from performer

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If laughter is the best medicine, Sauna Comedy is a miracle worker for New Yorkers

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Staten Island Councilmember David Carr, the only Republican member of the LGBTQIA+ Caucus, speaks at a stated meeting on Feb. 12.

LGBTQ Republicans stay silent on removal of Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument

Screenshot of Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and author Eugene Robinson (left), with moderator Darren Walker, president of the National Gallery of Art (NGA).

Pulitzer winner talks new American history

Exterior of the Film Forum in NYC, indie movie theater

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