Day to Day With Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus affects 25.8 million Americans. Bronx native Denise Thomas explains how the disease impacts her family.
The Holiday Marathon
The Holiday Marathon is a Bronx organization that helps people lose weight after overeating during the holiday season.
Surviving Lupus in the Bronx
Bronx residents battling Lupus — systemic lupus erythematosus (S.L.E) — have found a better way to cope with their disease by turning to support groups.
Bronx CAN Health Initiative
The Bronx CAN (Change Attitude Now) Health Initiative encourages people to stay healthy. “Smaller portions, less salt, less sugar, more water and more exercise.”
Harvest Home Farmer’s Market
Staggering increases in obesity rates and weight related illnesses in the United States have become a growing epidemic. In New York City alone, 3.2 million New Yorkers are either overweight or obese. This issue has inspired the formation of programs to educate and provide access to living a healthier lifestyle and Harvest Home Farmers markets […]
Holistic Health Counselor Margarita Saja
Many people don’t have the time to think the food they are consuming. Margarita has tips on eating better and staying healthy.
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Whether you’re looking for senior care for an elderly parent, assistance making dietary and lifestyle changes after a diagnosis, help with changing surgical dressings and caring for wounds, or physical therapy; the Visiting Nurse Service of New York can provide home health care when you need it. Ellen Murphy, clinical director of Bronx acute care division VNSNY educated us on the details of home care living.
Organ Donors: 1 Life Can Save 8
A kidney recipient’s brush with death motivates him to volunteer with the New York Organ Donor Network.