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Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn says it's had to make additional job cuts and consolidate services. It's the second round of cuts for Brookdale in less than two years.

Health officials say a new survey found that about 40 percent of New York City teens are sexually active and nearly one in ten of those say they've had at least one same-sex partner.

The Brooklyn District Attorney's office has impaneled a special grand jury to hear evidence in the case of the sickly, malnourished 4-year-old girl found dead inside her Brooklyn apartment in October.

City officials say there are still thousands of 9/11 first responders who haven't accepted their share of a $712 million settlement.

The House passed a health-care bill that will benefit first responders sickened at the World Trade Center site on 9/11. The bill passed 268 to 160, with 13 Republicans voting for passage. It now goes to the Senate.

There could soon be ingredient labels on floor polish and toilet bowl cleaner sold in New York. The state is set to become the first in the nation to require disclosure of the chemicals in common household cleaning products.

The 9/11 Health Bill would provide compensation to sickened World Trade Center clean-up workers.

In his remarks to the nation this week, President Barack Obama announced that the last of American combat troops in Iraq are on their way home. He also promised more money would be allocated to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for medication and psychotherapy to treat the country's 400,000 vets with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. But the VA is also increasingly prescribing another kind of treatment for vets coming home: music therapy. It has doubled the number of music therapists on staff compared to five years ago, meaning twice as many vets are eligible for the treatment.

Starting later this month, color-coded grades based on restaurant food-safety conditions will begin appearing in prominent locations to the entrances of New York City’s nearly 24,000 eating establishments.

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The city is proposing alternatives to traditional school bake sales in its 19-page booklet called: “Yes, You Can! A Fresh Look at Healthy Fundraisers ...

Working artists in New York are twice as likely to be living without adequate health insurance as those who make their living by other means. And after health care funding was slashed by $775 million dollars in the most recent state budget, it may be more urgent than ever for ...

The state's largest hospital network has grown a little bigger. Struggling Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side will join Northshore-Long Island Jewish.

The now 15-hospital Northshore network has been moving steadily west from Nassau County to Queens and Staten Island. Acquiring Lennox Hill gives it a foothold in Manhattan.

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A new report suggests New York routinely overpays hospitals for various medical procedures. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office looked at how much the state Health Department and the Medicaid system pay when hospitals release and then re-admit patients.

DiNapoli says New York should emulate New Jersey, where hospitals don’t get paid ...

We’re not hoping things go wrong, we’re just saying they probably will, and we’ll be ready.

That’s the gist of the message from medical malpractice attorney David Perecman, who writes with concern about increased the patient volume at some Manhattan hospitals following the closure of St. Vincent’s Medical ...

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Even as St. Vincent's Medical Center in Greenwich Village is shutting down, it's being reinvented. Gov. David Paterson has announced that an urgent care center will be opening in a small part of ...

A Manhattan-based hospital is receiving a multi-million dollar grant to operate an "urgent care center" at the site of the financially troubled St. Vincents Hospital. Lenox Hill Hospital will receive $9 million from New York State to operate the center 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Patients would ...

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'An urgent care center is not what this community needs. They’re trying to throw us a bone!'

That’s a doctor earlier this week protesting the closure of St. ...

The city is appealing a federal judge’s ruling last month in the case of World Trade Center responders and workers. The city and attorneys for about 10,000 plaintiffs proposed a settlement that could be worth more than $650 million. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said that number is not high enough, ...

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About 125 people gathered this morning in front of St. Vincent’s Hospital in the West Village after its board of directors voted yesterday to close most of its patient services. Neighborhood residents, hospital staff ...