Fred Mogul

The ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, is reeling from the news that 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, whose disappearance Monday sparked a massive, two-day search, was found murdered and dismembered on Wednesday morning.

In June, both houses of New York's legislature passed the Still Birth Certificate Bill by wide margins. If signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo, the bill would give parents of stillborn children the option to get birth certificates and name their children. Currently, New York only issues death certificates in cases of stillbirth.

Some of those celebrating July 4th had life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in mind - not the kind associated with fireworks and hot
dogs - but the actual words written down in the Declaration of Independence.

Special clinics that treat people with World Trade Center-related illnesses will now be able to see more patients and reduce waiting times.

About 200 people filled a large meeting room in Lower Manhattan this week to meet the woman who will run the World Trade Center Victims Compensation Fund: Sheila Birnbaum, the VCF'...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and state legislators have about 48 hours to reach a budget deal before the next fiscal year starts.

Rabid raccoons have close to disappeared in New York City a year after a major outbreak, according to city statistics.

The public hospital system will decide on Thursday whether union workers will continue to wash the millions of sheets, pillowcases, lab coats and medical scrubs that come through a central laundry facility each year.

Longer waits, fewer clinics, a less ambitious HIV testing program were some of the proposed cuts outlined by officials from the city’s public hospital system in City Council testimony Tuesday.

The majority of those informally polled in city parks supported the smoking ban that went into effect Monday — one that outlaws lighting up in more than a dozen miles of beaches, boardwalks and pedestrian plazas.

As the new smoking ban that outlaws smoking in city parks and on beaches, boardwalks and pedestrian plazas, a small but growing number of apartment buildings are banning smoking t...

Naturopathic physicians want to be licensed in New York despite objections from the state’s top group of medical doctors who call them "herbal remedy practitioners."

One of the country's top litigators will oversee nearly $3 billion worth of compensation claims for people with September 11-related health conditions.

New Jersey Democrats want the Christie Administration to re-write the rules on dispensing medical marijuana.

For the first time in about a year and a half, the medical examiner's office has positively identified one of the human remains from the September 11, 2001, attacks.

A common medical procedure is still in widespread use, despite strong evidence that it’s no more effective than much cheaper therapies, a study by a local expert showed.

A new ruling by the state's high court will safeguard mental health patients' privacy rights.

The collapse of St. Vincents Hospital in the West Village just over a year ago and a proposal by North Shore-LIJ to build a new facility on its site, a mile from Bellevue, have raised...

If the government wants to kill your geese, who you gonna call? If you're Prospect Park, the answer is a firm called Goose Busters.

The federal government will begin considering September 11 health claims this fall.