Topic: Thomas Farley

New York anti-obesity ads pair soda, leg amputations

A diabetic man with a penchant for sugary drinks who lost his legs to amputation is the latest posterboy in the city health department's ...

Starting a Business in a Tough Economy

Updated Jan 19, 2012 at 8:42 AM PST Back . By Thomas P. Farley For Men's Life Today . . Whether you're unemployed, underemployed, fearful of a ...

The 10 Rudest Cities In America

This post originally appeared at Travel + Leisure. Which is worse when you're traveling: the local driver who blithely cuts you off in traffic or...
The city Health Department is trying to shock New Yorkers out of their Coke and Pepsi habits.. . A new ad campaign that will be plastering the...

Editorial: Federal fat heads

Two nutrition experts argue forcefully that the U.S. should support testing to determine whether banning food-stamp purchases of sugared soda would...

Salty diets killing N.Y.ers: commish

A salt-heavy diet is killing up to 1,000 New Yorkers annually, but 500 lives could be saved if people beefed up their fruits and vegetable intake...
Black children in New York die from injuries at double the rate of other city kids - although youngsters here are safer than in many other cities...

NYC's TB cases down 81 percent from 1980s

NYC's TB cases down 81 percent from 1980s. Mar. 25, 2011 (United Press International) - New York City, which battled a tuberculosis epidemic more...

finally a vaccine for swine flu

Governmentsare more concern that the school children should get the vaccine first which Iwill totally agree with. ?We suspected that it?s going to return?.Our main concern is to tryand vaccinate as many people as possible before it comes back assuming ...
Health Net Inc. board member Thomas Farley diesHealth insurer Health Net Inc. said Thursday that board member Thomas Farley died earlier in the week at the age of 75.Farley, who died on Monday, had been a member of the company's ...