Fred Mogul

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order, saying University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Hospital in Newark can’t force nurses to participate in abortions.

Nurses at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital are voting this week on authorizing a strike in their ongoing labor dispute with management. It’s the second possible strike at a major Manhattan hospital in two weeks.

“Coordinated,” “integrated” and “managed” — these are the watchwords of New York’s Medicaid overhaul efforts, but what exactly it will mean for people on the state’s Medicaid program is still a work in progress.

Purchasers of health coverage in New York who want to know why their premiums are skyrocketing will soon get a better explanation.

Officials and supporters of the nation’s largest public hospital system are calling on Congress's "Super Committee" not to cut Medicaid — and wouldn’t mind if talks collapse altogether.

A Brooklyn charitable hospital that's also one of New York's largest Medicaid HMO's is selling off its managed care business to a for-profit company.

Defense attorneys for a New York City man charged with abducting and killing an 8-year-old boy said on Monday that his confession was coerced.

Borough Park in Brooklyn is a neighborhood that prides itself on being a small town in the heart of the big city. But that sense was shattered this summer after the brutal death of a ...

Neighborhood pharmacies often compete with large chains, like Duane Reade and Walgreens, for customers, but the rivals have been making common cause in Albany.

Medical marijuana could get a little closer to sprouting in the Garden State, as one licensed dispensary heads to the zoning board in the town of Maple Shade, NJ.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering hopes to win approval to build a controversial new cancer treatment center in the Westchester County town of Harrison this week.

A number of brand name drugs will be falling off the so-called "patent cliff" over the next several months. It means multiple generic versions of name brand drugs will soon be availab...

Some religious and other groups called on the city Wednesday to offer an alternative to its newly mandated sex ed program.

New York’s hospitals gets hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government to pay for health care for the uninsured and under-insured — but a new study that suggests much of that money doesn’t go to the right hospitals, with the most non-paying customers.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering's proposed cancer center in Westchester County has cleared a key hurdle when the construction committee of the Public Health and Health Planning Council approved the plan for the $143 million facility in Harrison on Thursday.

A state health panel got an earful Thursday from Greenwich Village residents trying to block what would be the state’s first free-standing emergency room from coming to their neighborhood on the former site of St. Vincent’s Hospital. 

 

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie would like to hand much of New Jersey's public hospital system and medical school over to Rutgers, the state-run university.

Peninsula Hospital in Far Rockaway has declared bankruptcy. The Chapter 11 filing was announced earlier but made official Tuesday.

The city invited the public Monday into the new $200 million wing of Gouverneur Healthcare Services, which initially served 19th-century immigrants on the Lower East Side and now treats the 21st-century immigrants of Chinatown.

Peninsula Hospital in southeast Queens announced in early September that it found a buyer for the financially ailing hospital center. On Monday, the new owner of the hospital formally...