Fred Mogul

At some city hospitals women have to wait weeks to get a mammogram.

The city's Health Commissioner at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s has died.

The Greater New York Hospital Association wants its members to adopt a program of relatively simple checklists, which has been proven to reduce medical error.

Family members who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001, have often disagreed with each other in their responses to the attacks – but most voiced similar reactions to the news that the U.S. had killed Osama bin Laden.

New York is above average on some national scores -- and not in a good way.

The city Parks Department has signed on to a plan to reduce the geese population in Prospect Park with non-lethal means such as poisoning goose eggs, posting signs asking people not to feed them and getting ready to deploy dogs to shoo them away. But the city is reserving the right to kill geese if less aggressive approaches aren't working.

Metropolitan-area hospitals frequently boast of being top in the nation for medical treatment and research, but new U.S. Health and Human Services Department figures from mid-2008 to late-2010 show local facilities are also among the top places for medical errors, at least in some categories.

The developer who purchased the former St. Vincent's Hospital complex has launched a public relations campaign to win over West Village residents skeptical about a substitute medical facility.

The infections from a relatively new tick-borne parasite in our region are steadily on the rise, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the first three months of 2011, city sanitation workers awarded $100 fines to 4,345 property owners for not complying with a new law that took effect this year requiring homeo...

The city wants to reinvent a struggling Arabic-language middle school as a high school and relocate it from Fort Greene to downtown Brooklyn.

Health officials estimate getting more people into so-called medical homes will save medicaid $33 million in the coming year and four times that much annually the next two years.

A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of St Vincent's Hospital to a Manhattan developer.

A Lower Manhattan mother who noticed changes in her toddler following September 11, 2001, is among the possibly thousands of residents who never went to clinics devoted to health a...

Cuomo brought together dozens of different health groups in a six-week process and demanded they propose steep cuts — or be subject to them across-the-board. Eventually his Medicaid...

As the budget is finalized in Albany, details about how it will affect the health care industry have emerged — including a new tax on hospitals that will set up an insurance fund for lawsuits from birth defects, no office-based surgery tax for doctors and no increase in co-pay for many Medicaid patients.

 

Starting this week, seniors will need to visit a physician before or after beginning a home health aide program — instead of getting a prescription over the phone – if they want Medicare to pay for the visits

Cold War-era signs for nuclear fallout shelters still mark buildings across the region – and with news coming in from Japan, some may wonder whether the fallout shelters would pro...

Sex education for New York City teens takes many forms and occurs in many settings – all in an effort to reduce the risk of pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted disease.

The State Senate and Assembly are expected to pass their versions of the state budget Tuesday, kicking off budget negotiations in earnest.