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Gov. Kathy Hochul, joined by the state's Office of Mental Health Commissioner Ann Sullivan, announced "sweeping investments" in mental health services, especially for youth, in a press conference on Jan. 11, 2023.

Bronx Times

Gov. Hochul announces $50M to expand inpatient mental health care

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso speaks during a news conference at NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Cumberland on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Reynoso allocated $1.1 million in capital funding for upgrades at various Gotham Health sites in Brooklyn.

Borough President allocates over $1M to Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health

By Isabel Song Beer

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Officials, former NICU baby, cut ceremonial ribbon on Maimonides Children’s Hospital expansion

By Melissa Fishman

press conference for grieving families act

Politics

Bed-Stuy father advocates for Grieving Families Act following fiancées death in childbirth

By Jada Camille

Gov. Hochul Maternal and Infant Mortality Presser

AMNY

Gov. Hochul could make NY first state to offer paid family leave to pregnant individuals

This is a cartoon version of pigeons on a wire.

Health

Doctors predict continual rise in COVID, RSV and flu in Brooklyn, urge locals to get vaxxed

By Jada Camille

Man wearing mask amid COVID outbreak

AMNY

Mask mandate back at NYC public hospitals amid winter COVID surge

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AMNY

Dose of relief? Hochul proposes ban on insulin co-payments in New York

Brooklyn father with first baby born in 2024

AMNY

New Year’s baby! Brooklyn couple welcomes first tot born at stroke of midnight

PoliticsNY

Coalition looks to protect long-term care program in New York

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Bay Ridge

COVID outbreak forces Bay Ridge Prep to dismiss for winter break early

By Jada Camille

Brookdale ribbon cutting

‘A long time coming’: Brookdale Hospital unveils new state-of-the-art lab machinery

By Isabel Song Beer

A room in the new JCCA mental health and preventive care clinic in Downtown Brooklyn.

Downtown

JCCA opens new youth mental health and preventive care facility in Downtown Brooklyn

By Isabel Song Beer

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Health

As war wears on, team of Maimonides doctors travel to Ukraine to teach emergency medicine

By Jada Camille

mayor eric adams teenspace

Politics

With youth mental health on ‘clear downward trajectory,’ city launches free virtual mental health platform for teens

By Isabel Song Beer

woman getting blood pressure taken at centerlight health fair

Bensonhurst seniors turn out for CenterLight PACE health fair

Brooklyn Paper

Participants at the inaugural Obesity Walk organized by One Brooklyn Health.

Caribbean Life

One Brooklyn Health launches inaugural Obesity Walk

breast cancer survivors at Brookdale Hospital

Health

‘I’m here today’: One Brooklyn Health celebrates, pampers breast cancer patients and survivors

Corazon Aguirre & Kirstyn Brendlen

woman getting mammogram

East New York clinic to host ‘MammoGlam’ event for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

By Adam Daly

Dr. Nina D'Abreo demystifies breast cancer for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Health

Demystifying breast cancer risks, diagnosis and treatment with Dr. Nina D’Abreo of NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

By Isabel Song Beer

More from Around New York

Nanette Kazaoka at an ACT UP demonstration.

Nanette Kazaoka, an unlikely AIDS activist, dies at 83

Athletes from the St. Vincent Grammar School at reception Saturday night at Calabash Restaurant and Lounge in Philadelphia.

SVG Grammar School impresses Penn Relays

City Works at New York Hall of Science

New York Family

NYSCI’s New CityWorks Exhibit Shows Kids How Cities Work With Hands-On Fun

NYPD Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera addressing the media early Friday morning about the officer-involved shooting inside a Pelham Bay apartment building

Bronx cops shoot man holding mother at knifepoint, officials say