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Bellmore-based Pride for Youth, a leader in HIV prevention on Long Island since 1993, has launched a ground-breaking PrEP Assessment and Monitoring Program for young gay and bisexual (trans-inclusive) men, through age 30. Supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Health, the program is the first of its kind on Long Island.
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3/25/15
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Malverne residents, saying they are tired of living with brown water, gathered at a meeting organized by the village with New York American Water last week to voice their frustrations.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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2/11/15
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A large number of measles cases in the United States dating back to last year has ignited a countrywide scare of a widespread outbreak of the highly contagious respiratory disease.
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By David Weingrad
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2/4/15
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Bellmore School District officials recently hosted more than 200 school nurses from across Nassau County for a health workshop. The program was held at the Charles A. Reinhard Early Childhood Center …
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/13/14
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It isn’t the fault of the Long Beach community that its medical center was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy. It may be that quite a few local residents never used the facility, but by now the entire town knows it is without a local hospital.
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10/23/14
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a statewide Ebola plan on Oct. 16 that called for the coordination of health care, Port Authority and Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers to combat a potential spread of the Ebola virus should it cross New York’s borders. He also designated eight hospitals, including Long Island’s North Shore-LIJ, in Nassau County, and Stony Brook University Hospital, in Suffolk, to act as regional centers for treating patients with Ebola.
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By David Weingrad
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10/22/14
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More than a dozen children across New York state have contracted enterovirus EV-D68, a potentially deadly virus that causes severe inflammation of the respiratory tract, according to state Department …
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By Julie Mansmann
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10/9/14
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Due to new guidelines passed by New York state earlier this year, the Rockville Centre School District is proposing changes to its vaccine policy, the majority of which would allow the school to keep a child’s immunization records for up to three years after graduation.
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By Alex Costello
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9/17/14
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Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes is unhealthy. It’s a fact that smoking has immediate negative health consequences and that, over a prolonged period, it causes several different forms of cancer . . .
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8/27/14
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Kevin O’Hara has been saving lives for four decades. A volunteer paramedic and firefighter with the North Merrick Fire Department, O’Hara is also a purveyor of life-saving knowledge to others — he has trained thousands of EMTs throughout his career, and thousands more Nassau County residents have learned cardiopulmonary resuscitation and ...
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8/13/14
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