The Latest Breaking News from Mount Sinai

More than 7,000 nurses strike at two NYC hospitals, stating that low wages and staffing levels have squeezed workers.

NEW YORK — Thousands of nurses walked off the job early Monday at two major New York City hospitals after contract talks disintegrated overnight, leaving Mount Sinai in Manhattan and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx struggling to care for patients.

According to a recent study from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, patients with a particular type of age-related macular degeneration (shoppingmode AMD), the main cause of blindness in the United States. Read on for details:

Chemical exposure and lifestyle choices probably to blame for reduction resulting in ‘sharp decline in probability of conception’

Police had been monitoring a “large car caravan” on surveillance video at Archer and Kedzie avenues with 100 drivers and people drifting in the intersection, police said. As officers responded to the drifting, gunfire rang out.

The mass shootings occurred in Lawndale and Altgeld Gardens, and wounded a total of 8 people.

A group of researchers have accelerated the collection of essential data to answer questions about the immune response needed for long-term protection against SARSCoV2, in multiple studies from eight cohorts across the United States.

WASHINGTON — Members of vulnerable and hard-to-reach groups could find it more difficult to get treatment for substance use disorders if the end of the public health emergency also brings the end of policies that allow health care providers to prescribe medications through video or audio calls, experts say.

The end of the pandemic may make it harder for vulnerable populations to have access to medication-assisted treatment for drug addiction.