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Washington Square News

New York University's independent student newspaper, established in 1973.

Washington Square News

A warning posted for visitors to the N.Y.U. Student Health Center at 726 Broadway. The sign indicates that students must have an appointment to visit the health center.

Opinion: A whole pandemic later, I still can’t access the Student Health Center

It’s been three years since COVID-19 taught us the importance of getting quick and efficient medical care. But NYU’s health center still has long wait times, making appointments inaccessible to students who need them.
Astrid Arias, Contributing Writer Feb 9, 2023

When you first get accepted to NYU, one of the very first things you have to do is make an online account with the Student Health Center. If you do not have your own insurance,...

NYU Langone continues to combat COVID-19 infections in the city. Recently, specialists at Langone proposed a telemedicine platform to better assess COVID infections and additional factors. (Staff Photo by Leo Sheingate)

NYU Langone Develops Telemedicine Blueprint

Telemedicine, which allows for remote healthcare, could fundamentally alter the way medicine is practiced.
Roshni Raj, Deputy News Editor Sep 21, 2020

A group of NYU Langone Health doctors and researchers published a telemedicine “blueprint” in Medicina — an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal — on Sept. 9. The...

A student packs up their belongings in Clark Hall, a residence hall in Brooklyn Heights. NYU dorm halls are reportedly to be used to remedy hospital bed shortages. (Staff Photo by Jake Capriotti)

NYU Dorms May House Coronavirus Patients

Vice President of Student Affairs Marc Wais sent an email on Tuesday, March 17 opening up the possibility of NYU’s residence halls being used as surplus hospital beds.
Emily Mason, News Editor Mar 18, 2020

Editor's Note, March 18: the number of hospital beds in New York City has been updated for specificity. They were counted using data from the New York State Department of Health...

Protect Black Girls Before It’s Too Late

Protect Black Girls Before It’s Too Late

Black girls and women are failed every day that society continues to neglect and ignore them.
Chinenye Onyeike, Staff Writer Nov 25, 2019

Samaya Dillard was a seven-year-old black girl from Sacramento. In December of 2013, Dillard’s second-grade teacher dragged her by her chair outside into the cold and made her...

Immigrants Don’t Need to Earn Human Decency

Immigrants Don’t Need to Earn Human Decency

Immigrants should not have to prove themselves worthy of being in this country.
Asha Ramachandran, Contributing Writer Nov 25, 2019

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority indicated on Nov. 12 that the body is leaning toward shutting down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA, an...

Pursue Your Dreams, Not Your Parents’

Pursue Your Dreams, Not Your Parents’

I couldn’t go through four years of college pretending to feel passionate about my parents’ wishes for me.
Chinenye Onyeike, Staff Writer Nov 11, 2019

Before college, I lived to make my parents happy. I allowed them to draw the outline of my professional future and it was my job to color it in. And when the picture drawn didn’t...

De Lune is a natural remedy for period pain. (Staff Photo by Katie Peurrung)

To Maintain Wellness, Students Turn to Plants

Some NYU students swear by plants — in the form of diet and essential oils — to stay healthy, despite inconclusive research for or against them.
Amina Frassl, Contributing Writer Apr 22, 2019

After falling sick during her first year at NYU, Sophie Gossack eliminated processed foods, dairy, gluten and artificial sugars from her diet.  “My diet comprises pretty...

NYU Langone, NYU’s hospital and medical school. Patients were forced to move last weekA number of pre-medical students have raised concerns about the quality of advising in CAS, claiming it is increasing the length of their medical education.

Q&A: NYU Neurologist Lawrence Newman

Phyllis Lam, Contributing Writer Feb 13, 2017
Neurologist Lawrence Newman recently joined the NYU Langone Medical Center as the new director and clinical professor for the Division of Headache Medicine.
Jonathan Tan/WSN

Doctors have authority to decide treatment of minors

Sep 10, 2013
The rights of minor hospital patients do not allow for the majority of children to have any autonomy as to their treatment.

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