Category: Brooklyn News

New York had a mammoth presence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this past week, and Brooklyn was very much at the center of all of it. Brooklynites Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivered prime-time speeches that put the borough in the limelight. And that tone was one […]

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Citing free speech rights, a federal judge has temporarily blocked New York’s attorney general from taking enforcement action against certain pregnancy counseling centers for promoting what critics say is an unproven method to reverse medication abortions. U.S. District Judge John Sinatra Jr. in Buffalo issued a preliminary injunction against state Attorney General Letitia James and her […]

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ALBANY — A New York judge said Friday he won’t force state election officials to tell voters that a proposed antidiscrimination amendment to the state’s constitution would protect abortion rights, dealing a blow to Democrats who pushed for the change. The decision from Judge David A. Weinstein came in a lawsuit over the language that […]

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BOROUGH PARK — AN INNOVATIVE PROCEDURE TO CALM THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND KIDNEYS was launched at Maimonides Medical Center this week.  Maimonides has become the first hospital in Brooklyn to offer the groundbreaking and minimally-invasive renal denervation (RDN) procedure for patients with high blood pressure. Last fall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the […]

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