Fred Mogul

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Governor Paterson says he's considering bringing back his former chief of staff. The governor has seen his poll numbers tumble and criticisms grow about his management and leadership skills. Charles O'Byrne was his longtime aide and widely credited with bringing discipline to Paterson and his ...

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Governor Paterson says the $11 billion New York is expecting in Medicaid funding through the federal stimulus package will help offset some, but not all, proposed cuts to the state's healthcare system.

At a forum in Manhattan on health care spending and reform, he says much ...

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Now that President Obama has signed the economic stimulus package into law, let the spending begin!

Governor Paterson says at least $24.6 billion will flow into New York State. Senator Chuck Schumer says the middle class will be among the beneficiaries, though tax credits for college ...

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Sex education has gone mobile. Anywhere that you can get a phone signal, you will be able to watch safe-sex soap operas on your cell phone. We’ve been seeing safe-sex campaigns for ye...

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If all goes according to plan, the day is coming when you can open your video-enabled cellphone and dive into some high drama.

Girl, you are pregnant! What are you gonna do?

A Rutgers University researcher is developing a public health soap opera, with federal funding. She ...

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A Rutgers University researcher is developing a public health soap opera, with federal funding.

She hopes the cellphone series will make the case for condoms more effectively than hum-drum public service announcements delivered by broadcast, print and billboards.

WNYC’s Fred Mogul has this report.

WNYC's Fred Mogul discusses the report released yesterday by the US Justice Department alleging rampant abuse at Kings County Hospital.

Months after Videotape of Neglected Patient Dying Spurs Reforms, Feds Fault City Psych Ward in Brooklyn for Continuing Problems

Novelist Charles Dickens visited a New York City mental hospital in the 1840s and reported on dismal conditions there. Forty years later, journalist Nellie Bly had herself committed for 10 days to the same facility on what’s now known as Roosevelt Island and wrote a landmark expose about it. Together, they helped etch in modern consciousness the images of the abject lunatic asylum as Hell on earth – a place where physical violence, sexual invasion and gross neglect amount to the triumph of anarchy and chaos.

US Justice Dept Report on Kings County Hospital

A new federal report paints a similarly dire picture of the psychiatric ward at Kings County Hospital Center, in Brooklyn, where patients allegedly beat and sometimes rape one another, and staff allegedly ignore patients and use sporadic, ineffective methods of treating violent or suicidal people with severe psychopathologies.

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Federal investigators say a public psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn continues to be riddled with violence and mismanagement – months after the hospital’s video camera showed a woman dying after being ignored for hours. WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports.

REPORTER: A letter by the Department of Justice to ...

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Last summer, a woman’s death in a public hospital in Brooklyn was captured on videotape, and it showed her being ignored by hospital staff for nearly 24 hours, even after she collapsed and was lying face down on the floor. The footage was widely distributed ...

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A bipartisan group of local representatives is trying to get long-standing World Trade Center health legislation onto the floor of Congress. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: The 9/11 Health and Compensation Act would greatly expand programs for screening and treating people with World Trade Center–related ...

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TV ads released state-wide today show black and white, old and young, native and foreign-born New Yorkers excoriating Paterson for a proposed multi-billion-dollar reduction in Medicaid spending.

AD: Governor Paterson, your healthcare budget cuts are definitely all wrong.

REPORTER: The ads are produced by the Greater New ...

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The city’s public hospital system is bracing for a mixed bag of budget cuts from Albany -- and possible federal stimulus money from Washington. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: At a community forum in the Bronx, a Health and Hospitals Corporation official laid out some ...

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A group of Nigerians can proceed with a lawsuit in Manhattan that accuses Pfizer of performing experimental drug tests without consent. WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports.

REPORTER: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals said the allegations, if proved, could represent, quote, "a real threat to international peace ...

A new report by the Vera Institute for Justice takes a look at clinical drug trials involving New York City foster children. WNYC reporters Fred Mogul and Cindy Rodriguez take a look at the findings.

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In the 1980s and ‘90s, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, New York City enrolled foster children in experimental drug trials -- at times, without the permission of parents. The issue emerged five years ago, provoking a storm of controversy, including allegations that black ...

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Many New Yorkers have been following the events in Gaza closely. WNYC has been speaking with people on both sides who have strong personal connections to the region. This week, reporter Fred Mogul spoke with Ronny Jacoby, a 23-year-old NYU student who served in the ...

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Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has signed an agreement with one of the nation’s largest health insurers that he says will reform how they charge consumers. WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports.

REPORTER: Cuomo says United Health has over-charged Americans hundreds of millions of dollars by improperly setting reimbursement ...

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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has signed an agreement with one of the nation’s largest health insurers that he says will reform how much it charges consumers. WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports.

REPORTER: Cuomo says United Health has over-charged Americans hundreds of millions of dollars by ...