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A bike club on Buffalo’s East Side is prepping for the warmer months with an E-Bike library situated in the heart of Buffalo’s East Side. WBFO’s Thomas O'Neil-White has more on the E-Bike Library and the importance of cycling advocacy in neighborhoods east of Main Street.
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The closing of a prominent Buffalo pain doctor's clinic several years ago raised questions. But forgotten in the mix was what happened to his chronic pain patients, that came to him with a legitimate concern? The aftermath of Dr. Eugene Gosy's clinic closure has highlighted the challenges Americans face in getting chronic pain treatment while our country confronts the opioid epidemic.
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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.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said masks will not be required in schools this year, but New York is stockpiling rapid tests and personal protective equipment in anticipation of yet another potential surge of COVID-19 as the fall gets under way.
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The best contract in the Western New York market right now is the one ratified between CWA and Catholic Health last year.
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Often people who use home test kits don't report a COVID-19 positivity, making official database numbers less reliable than when all testing was reported. Testing sewer wastewater is giving numbers for the virus and for medications used to treat COVID.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she and state health officials are confronting the ongoing outbreaks of two diseases, COVID-19 and monkeypox.
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New York state’s health commissioner, Dr. Mary Bassett, said Tuesday that monkeypox continues to spread, and people should be aware of the risk and how to access the limited supply of vaccines.
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Jessica Pirro, president and CEO for Crisis Services, discusses the impact of the new National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
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