Fred Mogul

Healthcare and Medicine Reporter, WNYC News

Fred Mogul appears in the following:

US Health Secretary Says Repealing Obamacare Won't Be Easy for Trump

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Trump and Republican lawmakers would need 60 senators to fully overturn the law, but there's much they could do quickly to eviscerate it. Will they?

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CEO of City's Ailing Hospital System Steps Down

Monday, November 07, 2016

The 11-hospital system faces a $6 billion budget gap over the next four years.

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New York Builds Housing to Cut Healthcare Costs

Thursday, September 22, 2016

New York is hoping it will cost less to build apartments for the chronically homeless and offer on-site care than paying for their healthcare when they're on the streets.

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Bridging Health Gaps With Housing and Transit Planning

Monday, July 11, 2016

From Trenton to Danbury, many communities continue to grow healthier — but others are being left behind.

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New York Invests Millions in Mosquito Vigilance

Friday, July 08, 2016

Local mosquitoes don't carry Zika virus. Their tropical cousin does. A jump from one to the other isn't likely, but health officials are watching carefully — just in case.

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Measured Breath: How Best to Monitor Pollution

Thursday, July 07, 2016

It's the second summer for the Biking While Breathing project which looks at the impact of air pollution on exercise in New York City. This year, researchers are considering going cheap.

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July 4th Weekend Brings Softballers from Around the Americas to Harlem

Sunday, July 03, 2016

A local park plays home to an international tournament, drawing ringers from Miami, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic.

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Nursing Home Residents Often Mistreat Each Other: Report

Monday, June 13, 2016

Oversight of nursing homes has long focused on preventing and detecting abuse by staff members. But a new study finds one in five residents suffers aggression from fellow residents.

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Far from the Tropics, the Zika Toll Slowly Grows

Friday, June 10, 2016

Local health centers field constant questions about Zika — which translates to thousands of tests and hundreds of confirmed infections.

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Time to Prep Teens for HIV PrEP?

Thursday, June 09, 2016

Many public health experts — and some lawmakers — want to make it easier for minors to get Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, a drug regimen that protects against HIV.

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Over 140 Patients Test Positive for Zika Virus in NYC Region

Wednesday, June 01, 2016

All of the cases of Zika virus found in the New York City area involved people who traveled to Latin America and other places the mosquito culprit is common.

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VP Biden to Elite Cancer Centers: 'Play Better in the Sandbox'

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Charged with a "moon shot" to overhaul how medical and scientific institutions conduct cancer research, Biden called on Memorial Sloan Kettering and others to collaborate more.

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Beth Israel Downsizing Adds to Major Cutbacks by NYC Hospitals

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Mount Sinai Beth Israel will cut its bed capacity from over 800 to 70, when it moves into a new facility, and local officials say this will strain an already overburdened system.  

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Another NYC Hospital to Disappear: Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Mount Sinai Beth Israel will become the 20th shuttered hospital in the city since 2000. Its parent network says it will be replaced by a different kind of health complex.

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From the Principal's Office: A Storytelling Slam

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

New York City principals shared personal stories about their work and memories of their own student days.
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Complication Rate Climbing for Pregnancy and Delivery in NYC

Monday, May 23, 2016

"Mortality" — death during childbirth — is relatively rare. But "severe morbidity," serious pregnancy and delivery complications, is much more frequent.

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New York Aims To Become The Next State To Toss The Tampon Tax

Monday, May 16, 2016

If 2015 was the year of the period, 2016 may be the year when women have to pay less for sanitary supplies, or even get them for free. Some state, local and federal legislators are pushing for change.

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President Obama Delivers Pointed Commencement Address at Rutgers

Sunday, May 15, 2016

The president criticized the rhetoric of the 2016 election season at New Jersey's largest public university, which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year.

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Eat Less, Exercise More...and Plug your Arteries?

Thursday, May 12, 2016

While the conversation about dieting treats hunger as an impulse to suppress with willpower, some researchers are trying to reverse-engineer the signals that make people want to eat.

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Genomics Leader to Head Rockefeller University

Thursday, May 05, 2016

After more than 20 years at Yale, a pioneering researcher will take over one of the world's preeminent bioscience institutions.

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