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The Cigar Endorsement
Just the thing the state’s new health commissioner needs when getting confirmed as a member of Eliot Spitzer’s administration: a “ringing endorsement” from state Senator Efrain Gonzalez, who is under...
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State Not on Board With Gennaro's Smoking Ban
State health commissioner Richard Daines, who wants a major crackdown of smoking in the movie industry, stopped short today of endorsing a bill that would ban smoking in cars carrying children. Here’s...
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Health Disparities, Mapped
ALBANY—Health officials unveiled this new Web site which allows the reader to see what ZIP codes have the highest rates of hospitalization for preventative ailments. Dr. Richard Daines, commissioner of...
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Donde Aprende Espanol el Dr. Daines?
ALBANY—Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines has taken back to YouTube to defend David Paterson's proposed tax on sugary drinks — this time in Spanish. Dr. Daines learned the language as a Mormon...
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Paterson Will Restore Health Care Spending; Champions Funds for Preventive Care
ALBANY—David Paterson is committed to spending "a lot" of the federal stimulus money intended for health care on health care, but told a group of medical professionals that "before we start to pour...
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Paterson Responds to Health Attacks, But Says He Won’t Go the Spitzer Route
It's Day Two of a passive-aggressive blitz by the Paterson administration to make their case that funding should be shifted from hospitals—on whose behalf there has been intense lobbying in the form of...
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Paterson’s Guy Responds to Health Care Attack Ads
Health Commissioner Richard Daines is striking out (via YouTube) at Ken Raske, the head of the Greater New York Hospital Association who is among the people responsible for a blistering anti-Paterson...
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Housing Works Chicken: GNYHA’s Raske Is Chicken
ALBANY—An advocate at Housing Works sent over this photo from a demonstration the organization put together today outside the offices of the Greater New York Hospital Association, which, along with...
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1199 Invites Daines to Speak at Syracuse Rally, Which Is News To Daines
ALBANY—SEIU 1199, the health care union that along with the Greater New York Hospital Association has taken a strong position against David Paterson's plan to restructure health care, last night issued...
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Paterson Opens New Front in ‘War on Obesity’
ALBANY—David Paterson will introduce a bill to require chain restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus, taking a New York City law and extending it statewide. The bill would, according to a...
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PigPrevention: $19,000 for Anti-Flu Hand Sanitizer
ALBANY—Swine flu is upon us. And New York has responded, in part, by spending over $19,000 on 546 hand sanitizer dispensers that are now dotting the walls of state buildings near elevators. "The Office...
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Former Health Commissioner Richard Daines Dies at 60
Richard Daines, the former state health commissioner, passed away this weekend, Michael Bloomberg announced at the start of his press conference at Metrotech in Brooklyn, this morning. Daines was...
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