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Image provided by the University at Buffalo/Author and surgeon Dr. Brian Williams will speak today at UB's Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. -
PexelsWBFO's Disabilities Desk reporter Emyle Watkins spoke with Jason J Stulb from the American Heart Association to learn more about Hamlin's injury, heart health, how to identify cardiac events, and how to be prepared in case someone you know experiences one.
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Kaleida Health and its unions teetered on a path to a strike, until they resolved everything early on Monday. Now, they have to work on finances and filling hundreds of vacant jobs. -
Workers from across Kaleida Health had approved a work stoppage, but CWA and 1199 SEIU hadn't issued the 10-day notice while talks continued to the deal early this morning.
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Communications Workers of America Local 1168 and 1199 SEIU United HealthCare Workers East, which represent more than 6,300 workers within the Kaleida system, announced late Thursday evening that 96% of participating workers voted in favor of authorizing a strike.
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Following a coordinated series of one-day strikes earlier this summer, workers at seven Western New York nursing homes have secured new contracts, but workers at two others are now set to go on even longer strikes.
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The NFTA manages paratransit, an essential means of transportation for people with disabilities, but some say it’s failing to meet the needs of people with disabilities.
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Updated COVID boosters are now available for anyone age 12 or older. The CDC is urging anyone who is eligible to sign up but some vaccine experts say some people might want to wait.
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Crowds of chanting Kaleida Health workers gathered outside Buffalo General Hospital and Oishei Children’s Hospital on Thursday to picket what their unions say are unacceptable working conditions.
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The Erie County Fair this year has unveiled some new accessibility features to bring the event closer to its goal of universal accessibility.
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For many in the LGBTQ community, the emergence of monkeypox is drawing parallels to another major public health crisis that was first dismissed as a “gay disease,” until heterosexuals began contracting it. Health experts say while the risk remains very low for most people, it’s unwise to dismiss monkeypox as an illness passed exclusively by homosexual contact, or exclusively by any sexual contact.
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Finding home care aides for New Yorkers living with dementia may only get more difficult in the years to come. New York has the largest home care aide shortage in the nation, while the number of New Yorkers living with dementia will increase 12% over the next three years.
