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Prescriptions for Truvada, a drug that protects against H.I.V. infection, have more than tripled since summer 2014 among people enrolled in Medicaid in New York State. Separately, the transmission of [...]

The lonely island where New York City buries its unclaimed dead lies off the coast of the Bronx, off-limits to living mourners for so long that it has sometimes seemed [...]

All over New York on Monday, as a stubborn arctic weather pattern converged with a long winter school break, parents faced the grand slalom of cooped-up children. In the Gowanus [...]

Lillian Palermo tried to prepare for the worst possibilities of aging. An insurance executive with a Ph.D. in psychology and a love of ballroom dancing, she arranged for her power [...]

For some members of the New York Police Department, the ambush killing of two officers over the weekend roused memories of a far darker chapter in the department's past, the [...]

Unable to see clearly and afflicted with dementia, Frank Mercado, 77, depended completely on the care provided by the small nursing home in the Bronx where he had lived for [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBellevue Hospital Center has long been on the front line of global health crises. But rising to the challenge of New York City's first Ebola case may be the [...]

Byline: NINA BERNSTEIN He had left his native Pakistan for the United States at age 8 to see his dying mother. By 18, he was the star of his high [...]

He had left his native Pakistan for the United States at age 8 to see his dying mother. By 18, he was the star of his high school basketball team [...]

Joseph Andrey was 5 years old in 1927 when his impoverished mother sold him to the manager of a popular vaudeville act. He was 91 last year when he told [...]

A federal class action lawsuit filed late Tuesday accuses New York State health officials of denying or slashing Medicaid home care services to chronically ill and disabled people without proper [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhen Hurricane Sandy flooded two adult homes in Queens, hundreds of disabled, elderly or mentally ill residents were caught in the surge. After weeks in public shelters, they were [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNASHVILLE -- Even as public attention is focused on the Affordable Care Act, another health care overhaul is underway in many states: an ambitious effort to restrain the ballooning [...]

For 400,000 people across the country with failed kidneys, dialysis care is a matter of life and death. It is also a lucrative business, in part because Medicare pays for [...]

The New York State Department of Health on Thursday abruptly withdrew its recommendation that a home health care agency with a checkered past be granted an expanded license, saying that [...]

It was a medical scheme that shocked the public conscience when it came to light in 2001: Two dozen mentally ill residents of a Queens adult home were forced to [...]

Fire Department investigators have cited Beacon High School in Manhattan for eight violations, finding that dangerous chemicals were being stored unsafely and that safety equipment and practices were lacking in [...]

Only weeks before a chemistry experiment sent a plume of fire across a Manhattan high school science lab, engulfing two students and leaving one with life-threatening burns, a federal safety [...]

In the rich and storied history of Jersey City's political corruption, the gold medal still goes to Frank Hague, who ruled as mayor for 30 years from a desk with [...]

Knee joint replacements at one-tenth the next cheapest price statewide! Baby deliveries below what they cost the hospital! At such discounts, one could imagine New Yorkers trekking three hours from […]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJust how expensive is your hospital? In New York, the answer may lie in a trove of hospital cost data newly posted online by the State Health Department. As [...]

The largest managed long-term care agency in New York has agreed in principle to repay $33.6 million to the state's Medicaid program for improper billings linked to the use of […]

A highly contested bill to require stores to keep cigarettes out of sight has been quietly dropped from a package of anti-tobacco measures that would make New York the first [...]

The Visiting Nurse Service of New York laid off 500 employees on Wednesday, part of the fallout from state scrutiny of enrollment practices that drew fit elderly people into programs […]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIt is one of the most common components of emergency medicine: an intravenous bag of sterile saltwater. Luckily for anyone who has ever needed an IV bag to replenish [...]

A Congressional committee released letters on Friday alleging that a pharmacy and a nutrition company in New York State ''got away with inappropriately billing the Medicaid program by millions of [...]

Invoking the specter of criminal charges against officials of the State University of New York for obstructing the delivery of emergency room services at Long Island College Hospital, a State [...]

Fear and confusion seized Dolores Persky in July when she received a letter announcing that Healthy NY, a state-subsidized program of private insurance that covers her family and 90,000 other [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDTwo years ago, a group appointed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo warned that Brooklyn would suffer a series of free-falling hospital bankruptcies and closings unless health care in the [...]

Giving up the fight to stay open, Interfaith Medical Center, one of Brooklyn's most financially troubled hospitals, asked a bankruptcy court on Tuesday to approve its closing and sent layoff [...]

The State Health Department approved key steps on Friday to close Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, ending admissions from its emergency room and all elective surgeries by noon on [...]

Hunting for ways that the incoming governor could close a $2 billion budget deficit late in 2010, New York State officials scrutinized Medicaid spending on home health care, and made [...]

Vowing to ''make New York City the single-payer laboratory in the country'' if he is elected mayor, Anthony D. Weiner on Thursday presented an ambitious plan to create a Medicare-like [...]

New York City officials said on Thursday that they would introduce legislation to crack down on Medicaid-supported senior day care centers that lure relatively healthy clients with enticements like free [...]

Managed-care companies in New York have come under fire for signing up vigorous older adults referred to them by social day care centers, customers whose health needs are relatively small. [...]

State officials have suspended enrollment in New York's largest managed long-term care plan for frail elderly and disabled people, and investigators have begun examining the relationships between such plans, which [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDScores of elderly Russian immigrants played bingo under the chandeliers of a former funeral parlor in Brooklyn on a recent Monday, with a free dinner and door-to-door transportation from [...]

High in a Manhattan skyscraper near Grand Central Terminal on a recent Tuesday, 80 critically ill patients in intensive care units scattered from Georgia to New Jersey were being monitored, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDA doctor who prosecutors said recklessly performed liposuction on a woman with a transplanted heart, leading to her death, was arraigned Thursday on charges including manslaughter and falsification of [...]

For years, medical students who chose a residency in radiology were said to be on the ROAD to happiness. The acronym highlighted the specialties -- radiology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology and dermatology [...]