Fred Mogul

Healthcare and Medicine Reporter, WNYC News

Fred Mogul appears in the following:

Attorney General Cuomo Announces Independent Reimbursement Rate Company

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

New York's Attorney General announced the creation of a new non-profit company that he says will make it easier for patients and doctors nationwide to predict what they'll get from insurers. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more:

REPORTER: If you use in-network doctors they and your insurer ...

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Paterson Suspends Vaccines for Health Workers

Friday, October 23, 2009

Governor Paterson is suspending a requirement that healthcare workers get immunized against seasonal and swine flu.

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Mumps Outbreak in Brooklyn

Friday, October 23, 2009

57 children in Borough Park, Brooklyn have the mumps, a childhood disease that’s widely been eliminated. Three-fourths of those children have been vaccinated, but the vaccine is considered 90 percent effective. Mumps is a relatively mild illness, but in rare cases, it can cause deafness. ...

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Paterson Suspends Requirement of Flu Vaccination For Healthcare Workers

Friday, October 23, 2009

Governor Paterson is suspending a requirement that healthcare workers get immunized against seasonal and swine flu. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: Paterson and state Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines announced the mandate in August. Healthcare unions and civil libertarians said vaccination should be voluntary, and ...

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NYC Wants to Ban Smoking in City Parks

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

City health officials are making a new push to make New Yorkers healthier. This time, it involves getting outer borough residents to exercise more and banning smoking in city parks and beaches. As WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports, a similar effort launched during Mayor Bloomberg's first ...

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Officials: No Insurance Co-pays for H1N1 Vaccines

Monday, September 14, 2009

Health insurers in New York State will be required to cover the swine flu vaccine, as it becomes available. But that doesn’t mean everyone who wants it will be able to get it. WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports.

REPORTER: Governor Paterson and state health officials say that ...

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City to Ban Smoking in Parks, Add Impetus for Exercise

Monday, September 14, 2009

City health officials are making a new push to make New Yorkers healthier. This time, it involves getting outer borough residents to exercise more and banning smoking in city parks and beaches. As WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports, a similar effort launched during Mayor Bloomberg's first ...

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Teens Struggle With Death of Parents on 9/11

Friday, September 11, 2009

Many children who were young when they lost parents at the World Trade Center are now adolescents – and September 11th is often a reminder that they have even more to deal with, as teen-agers, than most of their peers. Dr. Sudeepta Varma is the ...

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School Nurses Prepare to Give Swine Flu Vaccine

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Swine flu vaccine won't be available until next month at the earliest. But as parents bring their kids in for regular shots, many are asking for information about the H1N1 virus and trying to sort out conflicting messages, and so are the school nurses expected ...

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City Unveils Fall Swine Flu Plan

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

If swine flu comes roaring back this fall and winter, schools will turn into vaccination hubs, nurses will staff the 311 call center, and New Yorkers will be discouraged from heading to emergency rooms, unless they’re very, very sick. The city yesterday rolled out a ...

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Rangel Says Investigation Will Vindicate Him

Friday, August 28, 2009

Congressman Charles Rangel says an investigation by the House Ethics Committee will vindicate him of any ethical missteps with his finances. This week, the powerful Harlem Democrat filed amended financial disclosure forms that boosted his wealth by as much as $1.3 million over what he ...

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Local Schools Developing H1N1 Prevention and Response Plans

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Local colleges and universities have been developing plans, in case H1N1, or swine flu, sweeps through classrooms and dormitories. Their contingencies range from canceling classes to closing the entire institution. At Saint Francis College in Brooklyn, Linda Werbel Dashefsky says arriving students will get information ...

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What's Behind Umbilical Cord Blood's Freezing Promises?

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Stem cells have been in the news for years – both for their biological promise and their political baggage. President Bush banned research on new embryonic stem cell lines eight years ago.

President Obama overturned the ban this year, and funding is on the rise for ...

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What Does NYC's Healthcare Community Think of the Reform Debate?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

About one out of every five dollars in this country is spent on healthcare. In the New York metropolitan area, with all its hospitals, research facilities and medical practices, healthcare is the economy’s single largest employer. So, there's significant interest in the current political debate ...

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Democrats React to a Public Option Sacrifice

Monday, August 17, 2009

Some Congressional lawmakers are digging in their heels at the news President Obama might sacrifice the most controversial proposal of healthcare reform -- the government-backed medical coverage.

The so-called "public plan" would be modeled after Medicare and serve all Americans who can't get private health insurance. ...

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Weiner Holds Town Hall in Brooklyn

Thursday, August 13, 2009

About 150 people attended a town hall meeting on health care reform in Brooklyn, hosted by Brooklyn and Queens Congressman Anthony Weiner. He's proposing a single payer system.

REPORTER: Today Democrat Anthony Weiner spoke at a Brooklyn senior center. He said he’d like to see what ...

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Moms in NYC Less Likely to Use Birth Control

Friday, August 07, 2009

New York City women are less likely to use contraception following the birth of a child than their counterparts elsewhere in the country. That's according to a federal study.

Locally and nationally health leaders have tried to encourage mothers to spread out pregnancies.

Women who have a ...

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Schering-Plough Shareholders Support Merck Acquisition

Friday, August 07, 2009

More than 99 percent of shareholders of drugmaker Schering-Plough support being bought by bigger New Jersey neighbor Merck. The acquisition would make Merck the world's second-biggest drug maker by prescription medicine sales, just behind Pfizer. Barbara Ryan, a pharmaceutical industry analyst with Deutsche Bank, says ...

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Clinton Foundation Helps Lower Cost of HIV Drugs

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Local and international pharmaceutical companies say they're expanding access to HIV drugs in the developing world. The deal was brokered by the Harlem-based Clinton Foundation.

REPORTER: Former President Clinton says the drugs would not only become more affordable – they would become more transportable thanks to ...

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Health Problems Persist Among Those Exposed to WTC Attacks

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

A new study says people exposed directly to the World Trade Center disaster were more likely than others to report breathing and mental health problems – even several years after the events. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: Almost one in five people surveyed in 2006 ...

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