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Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement that he would activate the city’s heat emergency plan starting on Tuesday. “The first heat wave of the season is here, and New York City has a plan to beat the heat — but we want all New Yorkers to have a plan as well,” Mr. Adams said. The city’s Heat Vulnerability Index — an effort spearheaded by the health department in conjunction with Columbia University — analyzes the neighborhoods that face the most danger during a heat wave. If everybody’s doing it, you’re multiplying it by millions.”Are heat waves in New York City becoming more common? The only heat wave to hit New York City last year happened in September, said David Stark, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service of New York.

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Below, we've put together everything you need to know about where to watch We Are Lady Parts from anywhere. Season 1 of We Are Lady Parts first premiered in 2021 and quickly developed a devoted audience. Created by Nida Manzoor, the British comedy follows a group of Muslim women in a punk rock band called "Lady Parts." Where to watch We Are Lady Parts in the USBoth seasons of We Are Lady Parts are available to stream on Peacock in the US. Shop at Peacock TVWhere to watch We Are Lady Parts in the UKBoth seasons of We Are Lady Parts are available to stream through Channel 4 in the UK.

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☆ Biden Should Campaign on Making Americans Live Longer Again - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Ashwin Vasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The U.S. government’s strategic response to attack this cruel disease abroad was PEPFAR, an American initiative that has saved more than 25 million lives and shaped my understanding of what muscular public health policy could accomplish. Today, as New York City’s health commissioner and a practicing doctor, I see a desperate need for similar focus and ambition here in the United States. Because of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease — along with drug overdoses, suicide, violence — the United States has not. When developing countries needed H.I.V. When the world needed a Covid-19 vaccine, we combined government-funded research with private initiative and an enormous distribution campaign.

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Both children received help through telehealth therapy, a service that schools around the country are offering in response to soaring mental health struggles among American youth. The growth reflects a booming new business born from America’s youth mental health crisis, which has proven so lucrative that venture capitalists are funding a new crop of school teletherapy companies. For rural schools and lower-income students in particular, it has made therapy easier to access. Schools let students connect with online counselors during the school day or after hours from home. It now employs more than 300 clinicians providing teletherapy in over 150 school districts in 15 states.

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☆ 2 Charged With Murder in Day Care Death of 1-Year-Old
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Maria Cramer | More About Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

All three children showed symptoms of opioid exposure, the police said. Image Zoila Dominici with her 1-year-old son, Nicholas Feliz Dominici. Another 2-year-old-boy, who had left the small ground-floor day care center shortly after noon, was taken to a hospital after his mother noticed an unusual lethargy had replaced a toddler’s normal energy. “This crisis is real, and it is a real wake‑up call for individuals who have opioids or fentanyl in their homes,” Mayor Adams said. “The mere contact is deadly for an adult and it’s extremely deadly for a child.”

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☆ Dangerous US heat wave pushes eastward, capping globe's record July
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Mike BlakeCHICAGO, July 27 (Reuters) - An intensifying heat wave descended on the eastern United States on Thursday, prompting warnings about the dangers presented by the sweltering heat and humidity in the final days of a record-smashing July around the world. The nation's capital was expected to see the heat index, a measure of what the temperature feels like to the human body, reach 107 degrees F (41.7 C). The heat index could reach 103 degrees F (39.4 C) on Friday in the most populous U.S. city. June 2023 was the hottest on record in the United States, dating back to 1850. It also was the 47th consecutive June and the 532nd consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average, according to the weather service.

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☆ Factbox: Winners at the 2023 Olivier Awards
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] Jodie Comer poses with the award for Best Actress for "Prima Facie" at the Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Britain, April 2, 2023. REUTERS/May JamesLONDON, April 2 (Reuters) - The Olivier Awards for theatre were handed out in London on Sunday, with "My Neighbour Totoro" winning the most prizes. Below is a list of winners in the key categories. BEST NEW PLAY"Prima Facie"BEST NEW MUSICAL"Standing at the Sky’s Edge"BEST MUSICAL REVIVALRodgers & Hammerstein’s "Oklahoma!" BEST REVIVAL"A Streetcar Named Desire"BEST ENTERTAINMENT OR COMEDY PLAY"My Neighbour Totoro"BEST ACTRESSJodie Comer, "Prima Facie"BEST ACTORPaul Mescal, "A Streetcar Named Desire"BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICALKatie Brayben, "Tammy Faye"BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICALArthur Darvill, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s "Oklahoma!"

☆ 'My Neighbour Totoro,' Paul Mescal, Jodie Comer win at Olivier awards
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Jodie Comer poses with the award for Best Actress for "Prima Facie" accompanied by Paul Mescal at the Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Britain, April 2, 2023. It won best entertainment or comedy play as well as the director, set, lighting, sound and costume design category prizes. It won best revival, best actor for Paul Mescal for his role as Stanley Kowalski and best actress in a supporting role for Anjana Vasan, for her portrayal of Stella. "Killing Eve" star Jodie Comer won best actress in one-woman play "Prima Facie," in which she portrays a barrister who defends men accused of sexual assault before herself being assaulted. won best musical revival and best actor in a musical for Arthur Darvill.

☆ Why now is the best time for Gen Zers to launch a business, and how they're taking advantage of the opportunity to change the workforce
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Here's why now is the best time for Gen Zers to start their own businesses. It helps that some successful Gen Zers are earning more than America's top CEOs. Here's why now is the best time to start a business for young people and two Gen Z entrepreneurs who have done it. New ventures in copywriting, social media management, and virtual assisting have been among some of the most successful, Mawhinney said. With this in mind, young founders have the opportunity to build brands that new workers resonate with.

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☆ Sri Lanka's cancer patients struggle amid economic chaos
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The 32-year-old vegetable farmer was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021 and started receiving treatment earlier this year just as Sri Lanka's economy went into free-fall. Amid crippling fuel scarcity and weeks of unrest, Kumarasinghe said he was unable to travel the 155 km (96 miles) between his home and Sri Lanka's main cancer hospital on the outskirts of the country's largest city, Colombo, for treatment. Kumarasinghe is among hundreds of cancer patients who have had their treatment upended by Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948. Hospitals countrywide have struggled to contend with severe drug shortages, which have worsened over the last eight months, a representative of Sri Lanka's largest doctors union told Reuters. Sri Lanka's health ministry and senior health officials did not respond to calls from Reuters.

☆ Gen Z founders are changing the way many employers address their workers' mental health
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Many Gen Z founders are creating better workplaces for themselves and their staff. They're placing a large emphasis on supporting their employees' mental health and wellness. The generation is "leading the way to so many dramatic transformations around how we as a society are addressing mental health," she said. Samantha SyboWhile the young generation has made waves in mental health, Gen Z founders aren't immune to the emotional damage that comes with promoting a business online. Gen Z employees expect this progress in the workplaceYan and his two cofounders launched Simplify in 2020 to help job seekers land roles.

☆ Poliovirus found in Brooklyn and Queens sewage, New York health officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Kathy Hochul has extended the state of emergency declared in response to the spread of poliovirus after sewage tested positive in Brooklyn and Queens. The New York State Department of Health, in a statement Tuesday, said the sewage sample that tested positive in Brooklyn and Queens is genetically linked to the virus that paralyzed an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County over the summer. A total of 70 sewage samples have tested positive for poliovirus in the New York City metropolitan area so far, according to New York state health officials. More than 28,000 doses of polio vaccine have been administered since July in Rockland, Orange, Sullivan and Nassau countries, according to state health officials. State, national, and global health authorities believe the poliovirus found in New York originated from a country that still uses the oral polio vaccine.

☆ Life after monkeypox: Men describe an uncertain road to recovery
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Benjamin Ryan | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +16 min

Following recovery from this skin lesion–causing virus, people often find themselves waiting anxiously over the course of months to see whether monkeypox will leave them with permanent scarring. The marks are also signals of an infection that because it largely transmits through sex between men, can be highly stigmatized. Gerald Febles points to a scar left from his monkeypox outbreak. He founded a Zoom-based monkeypox support group for people with the virus he met mainly through social media. “I need to get back to my normal life,” said Galaise, who works for a New York City governmental agency.

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