STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Performing Provider System (SIPPS) — an alliance of physicians, healthcare providers and social service agencies — has been formed to improve the quality of healthcare for Staten Island’s 130,000 Medicaid recipients and 50,000 uninsured residents. “Our goal is to meet the triple aim...

Professor Muhammad Yunus has already transformed global financial systems and made his mark on development, but at 75 he’s not done yet. What he’s working to do now, what he hopes will be his legacy, is changing what he calls an “artificial” and “distorted” construct of human beings that the...

WASHINGTON — Just a few days shy of his 75th birthday, Muhammad Yunus talked last week about how “Poverty should be in a museum,” and how he intends to put it there by 2030. It was the kind of rhetoric Americans are used to hearing from politicians looking for just...

The baby boomer generation was supposed to be the one that slid into its twilight years with everything sorted out – health, financial stability and long life expectancy. But that may not be the case. According to a new study, boomers – defined by the authors as people between the...

NEW YORK (July 27, 2015) — Make the Road New York (MRNY) has released a short video to raise awareness about the difficulty of accessing healthy foods in low-income communities throughout NYC (WATCH VIDEO IN ENGLISH OR SPANISH). The video highlights communities with high rates of diet-related disease, specifically in...