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Subway Workers Face Arrest For Faking Safety Inspection Reports
PIX11.com | @jamesfordtvIt's a situation that could put the 5.2 million people who ride the subway every day ill at ease. A group of ten subway maintenance workers face criminal arrest for claiming they performed important safety work on train signals without actually doing...Tags: Health, Transportation Industry, Subway Transportation, Long Island, Manhattan (New York City)
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Workers Rescued From 17th-Story Scaffold Collapse
pix11.com | @JuliaTheWriterThree construction workers were rescued Friday after a scaffolding suddenly collapsed outside a 17th-floor window of an Upper East Side building. After three workers were spotted dangling from the scaffolding of the high-rise on East 66th Street and...Tags: Health, New York City Police Department, Upper East Side
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Work Burnout Tied To Emotional Eating
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who are fed up with their jobs may be more likely to turn to food for comfort in times of stress, a new study suggests. The study, which followed 230 Finnish women, found that those who reported work burnout were also...Tags: Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Nutrition, Medical Research, Human Interest
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Obama Administration Proposes Options On Birth Control Coverage
Staff ReporterThe Obama administration moved Friday to further insulate religiously affiliated hospitals and universities from paying for birth control for their female employees if they object to providing the coverage on moral grounds. The new proposal, which...Tags: Health, Employment, Healthcare Laws, Planned Parenthood, Healthcare Contract Issues
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New Twist in NY Twitching Disorder Mystery [PIX 11 Exclusive]
pix11.com | @pix11danAs doctors struggle to explain why more than a dozen girls in this town are suffering from Tourette's-like symptoms, new questions are swirling around the cleanup of a 40-year-old chemical spill that contaminated some of the local water supply. At...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution, Health, Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics
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Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum
Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum is an attending cardiologist and the Director of Women and Heart Disease at the Heart and Vascular Institute of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She has done fellowship training in both Preventive Cardiology and Cardiology....Tags: Health Treatments, Health, Health and Medical Professionals, Television Industry, Lobbying
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TSA To Shield Screeners From Radiation; Agency Maintains Safety Claim
pix11.com | @erica_pitziFor years, airport passengers and workers have had concerns about radiation exposure from the x-ray screening machines, and the TSA, in charge of aggressively approving the installation of so-called 'back-scatter' machines across the country, continues to...Tags: Health, Unions, Employees, Employees, Transportation Security Administration
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Dr. Sue Varma, Stress Management Specialist
Remedy Magazine has included Dr. Varma’s mental health tips amongst its “nation’s
top 5 doctors” advice.
Dr. Sudeepta Varma is a board certified psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU Langone...Tags: Stress, Health, Health and Medical Professionals, MSNBC (tv network), Radio
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9/11 Hero Battling Cancer Appeals For Help From Hospital Bed
PIX11.comChanging the minds of the bureaucrats who've barred cancer-striken 9/11 first responders from receiving federal financial help just might be accomplished by taking them to an ICU room on the eighth floor of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Treatment...Tags: Brain, Human Body, Celebrities and Health Issues, Health, Health and Medical Professionals
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Obama Can Be A Hero
Dr. John Howard was being vilified as Dr. Evil because of his statement that 9/11 First Responders stricken with cancer were not eligible for help from the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Fund.
And then John Feal from the Fealgood Foundation, the...Tags: Health, Celebrities and Health Issues, John Howard, Elections, Career and Workplace
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Newspaper Claims Ground Zero Workers Drink On The Job
Staff reporterLess than one month away from the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and now this: reports that workers at the World Trade Center construction site are boozing it up on the job. The signs outside the site read "Safety First" and "Our #1 priority...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Employees, Career and Workplace, Local Government, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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Salt Truck Dangles From Queens Parking Garage After Driver Loses Control
PIX11.comEmergency crews were at the scene of a bizarre incident that unfolded Wednesday morning at a Queens parking garage where a Department of Sanitation salt truck dangled from a two-story parking garage. According to officials, the incident unraveled at...Tags: Vehicles, Career and Workplace, Fire Department of New York, Salt, New York City Police Department
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