Caroline Lewis
Reporter at Gothamist
Health and Science Reporter at WNYC (New York, NY)
Reporter for @WNYC/@Gothamist. Steward @nypr_union. Send tips to [email protected]
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis
Columbia University is cutting about 180 staff members whose salaries were tied to federal research grants eliminated by the Trump administration, university officials said in a campuswide email Tuesday. “In some cases, schools and departments are winding down activity but remain prepared to re-establish capabilities if support is restored,” Columbia's acting President Claire Shipman and other university officials wrote in the email, which was reviewed by Gothamist.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis
New York Attorney General Letitia James and the attorneys general of 19 other states sued the Trump administration Monday to stop it from abruptly shrinking and restructuring the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, moves James said are “putting countless lives at risk.” Federal cutbacks are already straining New York’s public health infrastructure, including the Wadsworth Center, a state-run infectious disease lab, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court...
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis
About 60,000 New York City adults are diagnosed with diabetes each year, and the disease is most prevalent in the Bronx, according to new city data. The Bronx is also home to the four neighborhoods with the highest blood-sugar levels in the city among people who are diabetic as well as the highest rate of diabetes-related amputations, according to the findings, which were presented at a diabetes summit at BronxCare Hospital Center.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis
The nonprofit that operates New York City’s 988 crisis and suicide hotline said it will have to lay off up to a third of its roughly 300-person staff in the coming months due to a more than $10 million shortfall — unless the city steps in with funding. “ Our concerns are [that] if we miss somebody's call, does that escalate?” said Brenda Tong, chief program officer at Vibrant Emotional Health, the nonprofit. “Does that turn into a 911 call?
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3 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Caroline Lewis
A large Hudson Valley hospital network, WMCHealth, has agreed to restore psychiatric beds taken offline during the COVID-19 pandemic and make other improvements to its mental health services following a state investigation, the New York attorney general’s office announced Monday.
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