Fred Mogul

Amid calls to curtail incoming travel, natives of West Africa say don't close the doors, just beef up screening.

More of them are getting Medicare penalties than almost any place else in the nation.

ER teams — including supervisors — have no idea who they are or when they're going to show up with deceptively mild "symptoms."

Many state and federal officials want to restrict access to e-cigarettes, but public health specialists are divided on whether they do more harm than good — or vice versa.

NYU Langone Medical Center has re-entered negotiations to operate part of the hospital known as LICH.

The place: Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan.

The diagnosis: fast-growing, small-cell lung cancer.

The patient: Paula Faber, unrepentant, life-long smoker.

The choice: treat it aggressively to extend life, but probably not cure the disease, or manage the pain and focus on the quality of life.

It was September 2012 and ...

More cases are probably on their way — or already here — but the virus is mainly a concern for people with chronic respiratory conditions.

As the number of NYC smokers continues to tick up, health officials are targeting their latest ads at light smokers.

New York health officials hope consumers will use new access to "big data" to guide their healthcare choices.

Advance directives are increasingly helping people control how and where they die. But to get the most out of these documents, experts say people need to discuss them regularly.

Despite evidence that hospices can extend life and save money, New Yorkers continue to choose aggressive treatment over the comforts of hospice care.

People say they want to die at home. So, why is that so often not the case for people here, compared to other parts of the country?

Doctors there said it is unlikely a man who arrived in the ER with possible symptoms of the disease actually has it, but they're taking precautions anyway.

New York is one of the first states to pay for intra-uterine devices through Medicaid at the time of childbirth.

The Garden State is among states that declined to create an exchange, forcing the federal government to do it, and exposing it to court actions against Obamacare.

As important as wages, health benefits and pension were to SEIU-1199, an even bigger victory could be winning the right to add healthcare workers to a union that is widely considered ...

Nearly a half million of New York's low-income children stand to lose their federally-funded health coverage, unless Congress re-authorizes the Children's Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, a longstanding insurance program that is set to expire.

Some of those covered by CHIP could instead get coverage from Medicaid, according to Joan ...

Struggling hospitals across New York are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid to stay afloat. It's the first step in a long-term plan orchestrated by the Cuomo administration to dramatically change how the state's healthcare system works.

The Health and Hospitals Corporation, the city's public hospital system, ...

Observers say the battle will take more than expanding or tweaking current efforts.

New Yorkers who bought insurance from the state health exchange could see big price hikes next year.