DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

One of the people arrested at Columbia University this week was a middle-aged saxophonist who headed up to the campus from his Hell’s Kitchen apartment after learning about the protests on social media. A third had been active in other left-leaning protests across the city but also happened to work as a nanny nearby. She went to the university gates on Tuesday and linked arms with other protesters in an unsuccessful attempt to thwart the advancing officers, she said. After pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied a building on Columbia’s campus this week, demanding that the university end all financial ties with Israel, the New York Police Department moved in and arrested more than 100 people there. Mayor Eric Adams and other city leaders have accused so-called outside agitators — professional organizers with no ties to the university — of hijacking a peaceful student protest and spurring its participants to adopt ever more aggressive tactics.

Persons: Eric Adams, — Organizations: Columbia University, New York Police Department Locations: Israel

☆ Doctor Is Fired After Maternal and Infant Deaths at a Brooklyn Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A baby died during childbirth late last year after medical staff at a Brooklyn hospital appeared to ignore worrying signs for several hours, a new report by state health investigators has found. Two weeks later, the same doctor involved in the infant’s death was also involved in the death of a mother who gave birth at the hospital, Woodhull Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to the report. The doctor, Ronald Daniel, 72, was fired in December after the mother’s death, his employer said. The doctor was not the first at Woodhull to be fired following a maternal death in recent years. And this is not the first time regulators have concluded that problems on the hospital’s labor and delivery floor led to a death.

Persons: Ronald Daniel Organizations: Woodhull Medical Center, Woodhull Locations: Brooklyn, Bedford, Stuyvesant

☆ $1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward. It is one of the largest charitable donations to an educational institution in the United States and most likely the largest to a medical school. The donation is notable not only for its staggering size, but also because it is going to a medical institution in the Bronx, the city’s poorest borough. The Bronx has a high rate of premature deaths and ranks as the unhealthiest county in New York. Over the past generation, a number of billionaires have given hundreds of millions of dollars to better-known medical schools and hospitals in Manhattan, the city’s wealthiest borough.

Persons: Ruth Gottesman, Einstein, David Gottesman, Sandy, Warren Buffett, Buffett Organizations: Wall Street, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Locations: Bronx, United States, Berkshire Hathaway, The, New York, Manhattan

☆ 500,000 New Yorkers Could Have Medical Debt Erased Under New Program
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | More About Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

New York City will buy up millions of dollars of medical debt and erase it in a program that officials hope will ultimately help as many as 500,000 New Yorkers. Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that the city would invest $18 million in a partnership with a nonprofit organization that buys up unpaid medical debt from hospitals at steep discounts and then erases it. Hospital systems and commercial debt buyers are often willing to sell medical debt at steep discounts, and the $18 million could wipe out over $2 billion in unpaid medical bills, city officials said. “Up to half a million New Yorkers will see their medical debt wiped thanks to this life-changing program — the largest municipal initiative of its kind in the country,” Mayor Adams said. Daniel Lempert, a spokesman for the nonprofit organization RIP Medical Debt, said that the group had begun conversations with New York City hospitals about examining their books to identify patients eligible for debt relief.

Persons: Eric Adams, ” Mayor Adams, Daniel Lempert Organizations: Yorkers, ”, RIP, New Locations: York City, New York City

☆ Investigators Find Hospital Error Caused Mother’s Death in Brooklyn
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | More About Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the hours after her son was delivered, Ms. Fields bled to death, according to the medical examiner’s office. But a doctor at Woodhull said that it was clearly referring to Ms. Fields’s death. In addition, the document’s date is just five weeks after Ms. Fields’s death. The document states explicitly that an error by medical staff members “resulted” in her death. Soon medical staff members were performing CPR on her.

Persons: Fields, Woodhull, Jose Perez, “, wasn’t, Perez, Fields’s Organizations: Health Department, The New York Times

☆ NYU Langone Fired Him for His Anti-Hamas Posts. He’s Suing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | More About Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

A prominent doctor is suing NYU Langone Health after he was fired as director of its cancer center over his social media postings about the Israel-Hamas war. Dr. Neel is one of two doctors whom NYU Langone has removed for online postings since the war began last month. The lawsuit could put NYU Langone under the microscope in the widening debate. “They should take away their scholarships,” Dr. Grossman wrote in a message to Dr. Neel in October. In a statement, NYU Langone said Dr. Neel’s decision to share those emails was just him “lashing out for being held accountable.”“The emails referenced in the suit were among colleagues and Dr. Neel is now making them public in an effort to pressure NYU Langone,” the statement said.

Persons: NYU Langone —, Benjamin Neel, NYU Langone, Neel, Zaki Masoud, Masoud, Dr, “ Dr, Perlmutter, Milton Williams, ”, “, Ben Neel, ” Dr, Joseph Pace, Pace, Robert Grossman, Grossman —, —, Grossman, Neel’s, Williams, “ Grossman, Ben Organizations: NYU Langone Health, NYU Langone, NYU, Journalists, Palestine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYU Langone’s, Court, Perlmutter Cancer, Social Media Policy, Social Media, New, “, Harvard, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania Locations: Israel, New York, Gaza, Lenox, Mineola, Long, Manhattan, Connecticut

☆ When Does Life Stop? A New Way of Harvesting Organs Divides Doctors.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | More About Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The new technique, transplant surgeons say, significantly expands the potential pool to patients who are comatose but not brain dead, and whose families have withdrawn life support because there is little chance of recovery. But hearts are almost never recovered from these donors because they are often damaged by oxygen depletion during the dying process. Surgeons have discovered that returning blood flow to the heart restores it to a remarkable degree, leaving it suitable for transplant. The first problem, some ethicists and surgeons say, stems from the way death has traditionally been defined: The heart has stopped and circulation of blood has irreversibly ceased. Because the new procedure involves restarting blood flow, critics say it essentially invalidates the earlier declaration of death.

Persons: ”, V, Eric Thompson Organizations: Surgeons, Yale School of Medicine

☆ Mount Sinai Seeks to Close One of Lower Manhattan’s Last Hospitals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | More About Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If it goes through, the hospital’s disappearance would leave the residents of Lower Manhattan with few major medical institutions. The largest hospital that would remain to serve that area would be NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan hospital, a small institution that has fewer than 200 beds. Most of the large hospitals serving neighborhoods that include Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, Little Italy and Chinatown have been shuttered. That was especially the case in Queens, where years of hospital closures left the few remaining hospitals, including Elmhurst, overwhelmed. During the first deadly phase of the pandemic, Beth Israel cared for more than 1,700 Covid patients — 165 of whom died, according to state statistics.

Persons: Beth Israel, ”, Lois Uttley Organizations: Little, Cabrini Hospital, Vincent’s Locations: Lower Manhattan, Greenwich, Little Italy, Chinatown, Gramercy, St, Queens, Elmhurst

But Mayor Eric Adams has sought to curtail who can come and stay in the care of the city, which has a unique legal obligation to provide shelter to any homeless person who asks for a bed. In an interview on CNN on Wednesday evening, Gov. Kathy Hochul discussed one victory: A decision by the Biden administration to allow thousands of Venezuelans, the biggest group of newcomers in New York, to stay and work legally. She also said that she agreed with the mayor’s goals to restrict the right-to-shelter guarantee. Young children, exhausted by their long journey — days for some, weeks for others — lay in their parents’ laps, sleeping or staring up at the shimmering lights overhead.

Persons: Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul, Biden, Ms, Hochul, “, . Long Organizations: CNN, ” Locations: New York, Young

☆ The N.Y.C. Neighborhood That’s Getting Even Thinner on Ozempic
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | More About Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Upper East Side is one of the city’s wealthiest and healthiest neighborhoods. It has one of the highest life expectancies, and among the lowest rates of diabetes and obesity in New York City. Now the neighborhood’s residents are getting even thinner. That was the highest rate in New York City. “The running game show of the 10021 ZIP code is guessing who is on Vitamin O” — that is, Ozempic, said the writer, actress and Upper East Side native, Jill Kargman, referring to what has long been the city’s toniest ZIP code, covering much of the East 70s.

Persons: Jill Kargman Organizations: Gramercy, Trilliant Health Locations: New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn

☆ In New York, Covid Cases Are Rising, Slightly, Officials Warn
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | More About Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

So far New York City has seen seven waves of Covid-19, with four occurring since the Omicron variant first appeared at the end of 2021. Dr. Nash estimates that more than 20 percent of New Yorkers have now had Covid-19 three or more times, a group that now includes him. New York City’s vast testing apparatus has largely closed, and many people don’t bother with at-home tests anymore. In New York City, the daily average count of new cases stood at only 363, as of July 24. “As we once again see an increase in cases of Covid-19 in the state, I urge all New Yorkers to remember Covid is a treatable disease,” Dr. McDonald said, urging people to consider seeking antivirals such as Paxlovid, if infected.

Persons: Nash, “, James McDonald, Dr, McDonald Organizations: Yorkers Locations: New York City, York

Using phone records and a sophisticated system that maps the reach of cell towers, a team of investigators had drawn the irregular shape across a map of tree-lined streets in the Long Island suburb of Massapequa Park. By 2021, the investigators had been able to shrink the polygon so that it covered only several hundred homes. In one of those homes, the investigators believed, lived a serial killer. A decade before, 11 bodies had been found in the underbrush around Gilgo Beach, a remote stretch of sand five miles away on the South Shore. He was charged with three of the murders, to which he has pleaded not guilty, and was named as the prime suspect in the fourth.

Persons: Rex Heuermann Organizations: Shore, Penn Locations: Long, Massapequa, Gilgo, Midtown Manhattan, Penn, Manhattan, Suffolk County

☆ How Bad Will the Ticks Be This Summer?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you end up becoming one of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers expected to be bitten by a tick this summer, don’t be surprised. Some experts are warning that it could be a particularly bad tick season. Other tick species are also becoming more prevalent; new species have established themselves in the Bronx and Staten Island. The developments — new ticks, new pathogens and rising cases of rare diseases — are leading experts to rethink their advice for avoiding tick bites. One new species of tick, for instance, seems to prefer manicured lawns over shady wooded areas, surprising experts.

Persons: don’t Organizations: Heartland, New York State Locations: New York, Bourbon, Bronx, Staten Island

☆ Resident Doctors Go on Strike at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Now the striking young doctors, many of whom were still in medical school in 2020, say the pandemic has encouraged activism and organizing — and a growing willingness to challenge the low pay young trainee doctors receive for working long and grueling hours. Trainee doctors who work at the city’s public hospitals have often been reluctant to rock the boat in the past. “As international residents, we’re always so thankful — we feel very lucky to be here,” said Dr. Sarah Hafuth, a leader among the resident physicians, who comes from Canada. That angered many resident physicians and hazard pay remains one of the issues driving the strike, one union delegate, a psychiatry resident, Dr. Tanathun Kajornsakchai, said on Friday. The last one in New York City, according to the Committee of Interns and Residents, the union organizing this week’s strike, was in 1990 when young doctors at a Bronx hospital went on strike for nine days.

☆ Why Undocumented Immigrants Struggle to Receive Organ Transplants
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As her kidneys failed from an autoimmune disease, Ms. Joseph, 34, realized she might be next. A new kidney would offer Ms. Joseph the best hope for regaining her health, but as an undocumented immigrant who lacked health insurance, her odds of getting a kidney transplant had been close to zero. “It’s unfair,” Ms. Joseph said. Undocumented immigrants face high hurdles to receiving organ transplants themselves, even though they can donate organs, and more of them are signing up to do so through programs like IDNYC, which gives residents of New York a municipal identification card regardless of their immigration status. Now, some advocates are pushing the state to make organ transplants available to undocumented immigrants, although the effort could create political friction as the state debates how to handle an influx of migrants.

Search resuls for: "Joseph Goldstein"

15 mentions found