Fred Mogul

See what health reporter Fred Mogul is reading on his beat this morning.

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.

See what health reporter Fred Mogul is reading on his beat this morning.

Hundreds of public school students get religious exemptions from compulsory vaccination requirements for school. However, there is a catch: if students are not vaccinated, the school can ask them to stay home, for an extended period, if a classmate comes down with chicken pox, measles or one of the other “vaccine-preventable diseases.” Two families from Queens are suing the city over that catch.

See what health reporter Fred Mogul is reading on his beat this morning.

Some 50 churches that worship in New York City schools are hoping their scheduled eviction this Sunday will be delayed by a potential change in state law.

See what health reporter Fred Mogul is reading on his beat this morning.

The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig Thompson, has been accused of using research from his former employer to help launch a biotech company — a charge he denies, but one that draws into the spotlight the question of ownership over ideas.

A Jersey City hospital and a private California company have called off a controversial deal that would’ve made the non-profit hospital part of a commercial network.

The winning design for a proposed AIDS Memorial in the West Village on the former site of St. Vincent’s Hospital campus features a grove of white birch trees surrounded by a triangle of tall mirrored walls.

Restaurant owners have until  the end of Tuesday to weigh in on health inspections and the controversial letter-grading system through an online survey sponsored by the City Council.

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Nurses at Flushing Hospital in Queens say they will go on strike early next month, unless a labor dispute is resolved.

Luxury condominiums, townhouses and retail stores are one step closer to being built on the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital in the West Village.

Governor Andrew Cuomo perhaps knows something about one of the state’s largest insurance companies that the company itself doesn’t know – that it could be sold as soon as next year.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie condemned the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks in Bergen County a day after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a synagogue in the town of Rutherford.

Two months after a state panel told cash-strapped Brooklyn hospitals they should merge or reduce services in order to avoid closure, some hospitals have taken the advice — and others have disregarded it.

Things are calming down at Lenox Hill Hospital now that Blue Ivy Carter, the newborn daughter of hip-hop superstars Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and  Beyoncé Knowles, is at home. The hospital was struck by Celebrity Disruption Syndrome over the weekend.

Nurses this week will vote on a proposed settlement with Montefiore Medical Center, potentially concluding a season of tense contract negotiations that had unions at four different hospitals threatening to strike.