Fred Mogul

People suffering from certain World Trade Center-related health conditions can get free legal help to apply for financial support.

A powerful City Council committee approved a luxury condominium deal on the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital Wednesday, after making several changes to the developer’s plan.

A Manhattan nursing home slated to be shuttered following the sale of its building announced Tuesday it was hoping to strike a deal with a Brooklyn facility to take some of its patients – and save some of the nearly 300 jobs that would be lost in the closure.

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office says it will make good on an anti-fraud law that was passed in 2005 but never enforced until now.

A City Council survey released Wednesday showed 85 percent of restaurant owners say the letter grading system is "Poor" or "Fair." Less than 5 percent say it's "Very Good" or "Excellent."

Developers of a proposed condominium project on the site of the old St. Vincent's Hospital testified before a key City Council committee Tuesday in one of the last stops in a long approval process that has pitted one of the city's prominent real estate families against many in the West Village.

The familiar smell of ammonia could soon be dissipating from the hallways of many city-government buildings.

Beth Israel Hospital will pay the federal government $13 million for fraudulently inflating bills to Medicare, in a settlement that provides a rare glimpse into financial decision-making among hospital executives.

Ten doctors and three attorneys are among the 36 indicted in an alleged organized crime ring and are charged with defrauding private insurance companies of more than $113 million ...

New Jersey health officials say a long-shuttered Bergen County hospital will reopen as an emergency care facility after years of tussling over its future.

An injunction issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in the ongoing litigation also allows other churches to get permission to use other schools around the city.

A struggling hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens, is transferring and discharging all its inpatients, after state health officials found dozens of deficiencies in the hospital lab.

A small local insurance company will receive federal loans to serve low-income people in the region who make too much to be on Medicaid, but too little to purchase regular health coverage.

A new study finds that newborn infants of some immigrant mothers from the Caribbean have relatively high levels of mercury in their blood.

A federal panel charged with examining the link between World Trade Center dust says the evidence is strong enough that the government should begin covering cancer.

Under pressure from the police union, elected officials and health researchers, the NYPD is releasing the names of officers who served at Ground Zero to Mt. Sinai Medical Center. The decision comes as a panel considers adding cancer to the list of diseases covered for emergency responders who worked at the 9/11 site.

The city will soon release information on police officers who served at the World Trade Center in the days and months after September 11.

Religious groups that meet in public schools are asking a federal judge for a temporary restraining order — to let them continue worshiping there, while they mount another legal challenge to their eviction.  Last Sunday was the final day that churches were allowed to hold services in public schools.

A panel charged with reviewing possible connections between World Trade Center dust and cancer meets this week to consider whether the disease should be covered under the James Zadroga 9/11 fund.

President Barack Obama announced Friday plans to modify a new federal demand that religious employers offer workers free coverage of birth control pills — moving away from a version of the policy that exists in New York.