Fred Mogul

The bankrupt St. Vincent’s Medical Center has worked out a deal that would keep a 24-7 emergency room in the area.

A reconfigured St. Vincent's Medical Center will live to see another day under new ownership.

Nearly a year after St. Vincent's Medical Center closed in the West Village, the area is getting a new urgent care center. Dr. Benjamin Greenblatt, the Medical Director, said it won't replace the hospital's full-service emergency room, but will be able to accommodate many minor and mildly serious injuries.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal to overhaul Medicaid is drawing new objections from different groups.

Dr. Sean Morrison said bringing together doctors, nurses, chaplains and social workers to talk through treatment options with patients and their families makes sense not only for the patient with end-stage pancreatic cancer but also for the one in the early stages of a relatively curable leukemia.

Stem cells are widely used for treating blood cancers, but their much-touted promise for curing Parkinson’s Disease or spinal injuries is considered in the distant future at best.

 

One of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s goals is not only to trim the state’s $53 billion Medicaid budget but also, like several governors before him including his father, to fundamentally reshape the health care program, which now covers almost five million low-income New Yorkers.

Consumer advocates and trial attorneys said a state proposal to cap malpractice awards takes away a key protection for patients – and wouldn’t save the state budget any money.

A state commission appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to trim Medicaid costs approved a package on Thursday that officials said will save billions of dollars.

A panel charged with trimming the state’s ever-growing Medicaid budget meets Thursday and Friday to finalize a series of proposals that could change the way millions of low-income New Yorkers receive health care.

The fate of the national healthcare overhaul is uncertain, but the Obama administration is going ahead with plans to develop the linchpin program.

A newly isolated mutation has helped a species of bottom-feeding fish called the tomcod survive Hudson River pollution.

Federal prosecutors say 10 Brooklyn residents fraudulently billed the Medicare system for $90 million. They were part of a national sweep leading to the arrests of 111 people in six states.

One-hundred residents lobbying for a restored hospital in the area met last night to discuss the St. Vincent's bankruptcy proceedings and consider various strategies in the wake of t...

The Health and Hospitals Corporation — the nation's largest public hospital system — said magnetic tapes containing records for 1.7 million people were stolen from an unlocked transport van.

A new state law that takes effect this week wades into a national controversy about the government’s role in end-of-life care.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz was fined $2,000 by the city's Conflict of Interest Board for putting a top aide to work on private business.

The Super Bowl on Sunday marked the official end to the NFL season, a time that brought increased focus on violence, injuries and the need for greater safeguards in the game. That focus has been felt, in a small way, by several rats in one Manhattan research lab.

A new public service ad by the city Health Department shows that drinking just a few sodas a day is like eating more than 90 packets of sugar.  It’s part of the city’s “Pouring on the Pounds” campaign, one of several where the city’s going for the gross-out, in the hope it will move people to change their behavior.

NYU Medical Center recently made public its plans for expansion but critics call it one of the city's worst when it comes to serving the city's poor.