How to read health news without getting misled
Headlines compress studies into single sentences. Here is what gets lost, and how to get it back before sharing or acting.
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The 2023 New York City nurses strike set a pattern hospitals are still paying for
Roughly 7,000 nurses struck two Bronx hospitals for three days in January 2023, winning 19-percent raises and staffing language that shaped every New York settlement since.
How night shift work pulls the body's clocks apart
A federal training module, a 2018 laboratory study and a 2021 cancer hazard assessment describe the same mechanism: the brain's master clock stays on day time while organ clocks move to night time.
What it takes to become a certified nursing assistant in New York
Work fatigue costs employers $218 billion a year, and health care carries outsized risk, federal data show
New York opened its first $76.2 million rural hospital transformation funding round on July 1
The state Department of Health published guidance for the $76.2 million Rural Community Health Integration Initiative, the first draw on New York's $212.1 million federal Rural Health Transformation award for upstate providers.