Source: NorthJersey.com Bloomberg Philanthropies has awarded the city $1 million to launch a program officials say will provide hundreds of drug addicts with Suboxone, a medication that blocks opiates and reduces withdrawal symptoms. In a city with more than 1,700 opioid overdoses per year, the RealFix initiative is designed to provide addicts with Suboxone 24 […]
Sources: RLS Media; Mental Health Association New Jersey The Borough of Roselle Park will continue to offer its free exercise classes every day throughout 2022. Township officials say these classes take place at the Casano Community Center (314 Chestnut Street). Monday through Friday starting at 11 a.m., exercise programs for seniors 55 and older are […]
Source: MoebiusSyndrome.org The Children’s Craniofacial Association; Many Faces Of Moebius Syndrome; Face Equality International; and Moebius Syndrome Foundation have UNITED in celebrating the 11th Annual Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day which will be celebrated worldwide on January 24, 2022. This event will occur in real-time online as people around the world hold a wide variety of […]
Thyroid Health Awareness: American Thyroid Association · Dieting Right · American Assoc. Of Clinical Endincrinology · Thyroid Cancer · Other Thyroid Conditions Source: Good Morning America The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland in the front of the neck, which produces hormones that affect every tissue in the body. As a key part of the endocrine […]
Source: NJ.com Three measures moving through the state Legislature are focused on addressing mental-health services at colleges and universities. All of the bills, including one identical measure in the Assembly and Senate, seek to bolster the existing Madison Holleran Suicide Prevention Act of 2016 that requires schools make a mental health professional available around the […]
Source: Hudson Reporter The city councils of both Bayonne and Kearney have joined the opposition to a self-described renewable energy company’s proposal to build a human waste processing facility in Kearny. Aries Clean Technologies is seeking to construct a facility for processing what it calls “biosolids,” commonly known as solid human waste that has been […]