In an interview, New York State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald shares his perspective on looming cuts to Medicaid, a new public health alliance in the Northeast, how global health affects New ...

New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has hired six more water ecologists in the weeks following this summer’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that killed seven people and sickened ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Weekly flu cases in New York City are continuing to drop, but health officials are warning that the flu ...

Health officials in New York City say a cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in Central Harlem has grown to 90 cases, including three deaths. The update comes days after New York City’s health department ...

The city Department of Health is suggesting cutting the number of liquor stores in the Big Apple as a way to curb health-threatening booze abuse. In a report released Wednesday, Mayor Eric Adams’ DOH ...

Chair and Professor of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health When Hurricane Ida struck New York City in 2021, 11 people ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Official New York City data is showing “surging” cases of the contagious illness. According to a Facebook post from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the ...

A sixth person has died in a Harlem Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, health officials said Thursday. The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said there have now been 111 confirmed cases of ...

New York City is seeing a boost in COVID-19-related illnesses and even one death in the last week, according to the NYC Department of Health. On Thursday, there was a major development in the ...

ALBANY — New York reported a record-high number of flu hospitalizations in a single week, the State Department of Health announced on Friday. During the week ending on Dec. 27, 4,546 people were ...