Results tagged “humanservices”

One of the Stuyvesant High School students seriously injured in last Saturday's Vermont van crash has returned home to New York. Junior Lucia Hsiao, a member of the girls' junior varsity track team, had suffered serious neck injuries but was able to "gingerly walk" to her room on her own. The Staten Island resident is wearing a halo around her head and will require a lot of rehab, but her dad said, "It could have been worse. She's done with the first step of recovery."

It shouldn't be a shock to anyone to hear that an executive at Starbucks has a better work environment than a lowly barista. Other than higher pay and a far sweeter benies package, Gothamist imagines the Starbucks executive enjoys a quiter, less asshole-ridden workday (maybe). While to hear that there is a 2-class system for nursing moms on the job there is not surprising, it is still disturbing. Whereas the executive has a comfy and well-equipped lactation room at her disposal, the coffehouse worker has to use the bathroom during her break (assuming their isn't some undesirable in there clogging up the works).

Oy. When we think about nursing homes we think of many things, often pretty sad things, but "dementia sufferers sexually abusing each other as staffers turned a collective blind eye" is not usually the first thing that comes to mind. Or the even the twelfth.

When you calculate Dr. Atkins's body mass index, someone who at 6 feet, 258 pounds, has a BMI of 35 which is obese. Even 6 feet, 230 pounds, is obese. Really, the time-tested tradition of weight-loss and better health is exercise and counting calories in a well-balanced diet (more from the Department of Health and Human Services).