Brooklyn Nurse With Cystic Fibrosis Continues Working During Pandemic
May 6, 2020By Michelle Powers Megan DiBenedetto knows what it’s like to gasp for air. She knows what it’s like to not have the […]
Topic: Health
Italy Residents Face Mixed Emotions as Phase Two of Lockdown Lift Begins
May 4, 2020By Melissa Butz After 55 days of lockdown, Italy’s long-awaited “phase two” of reopening has begun, marked by obligatory masks, open parks, […]
What If the COVID-19 Vaccine Is Derived From Aborted Fetal Tissue? We Ask the Doctor
May 1, 2020Currents News Staff With many states reopening the question on when a vaccine to combat the coronavirus will be available needs to […]
Is the Coronavirus Causing Strokes in Younger Adults? We Ask the Doctor
April 24, 2020Currents News Staff Questions and doubts about how to treat and address the coronavirus continue. Western medicine has been exposed to the […]
How Those With Alzheimer’s or Dementia Could Be Impacted by COVID-19
April 22, 2020Currents News Staff If you’re a caregiver for someone living with Alzheimer’s or dementia, life was challenging enough before the coronavirus. Now, […]
New York City Opens Bilingual Walk-In Testing Site for Coronavirus
April 21, 2020Currents News Staff Non-english speakers can struggle when receiving health care, as the language barrier can confuse an already complicated situation. The […]
Ask the Doctor: Is the Drug Remdesivir the Answer to Treating COVID-19?
April 17, 2020Currents New Staff More than a hundred years after the Spanish flu, while we have more tools and knowledge to combat a […]
Women Religious Answer Call to Serve During 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
April 17, 2020By Franca Braatz and Michelle Powers The Spanish influenza was an undetected killer sweeping the globe as the world was in the […]
City Housing Conditions Pose Safety, Social Distancing Challenges During Pandemic
April 16, 2020By Jessica Easthope For people living in dense urban areas social distancing has been difficult, but for those who live in New […]
Non-Profit ‘Rethink Food’ Brings Free Lunch for Hospital Workers
April 14, 2020By Jessica Easthope The heroes at Brooklyn’s Wyckoff Heights Medical Center are getting some much needed relief. For the first time, on […]