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Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio A city-based telehealth startup focused on treating gastrointestinal disorders has raised late-stage venture funding to expand insurance coverage of its platform. Oshi Health, a telehealth provider that [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Local hospitals are getting some respite from the swelling costs of labor, drugs and medical supplies that have persisted in the last year. Tri-state area hospitals scored [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Mayor Eric Adams has said he has no plans to resign after his indictment by federal prosecutors on five counts last month. But if that changes or [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Lawmakers are pursuing a new way to tamp down hospital costs, aiming to fight skyrocketing prices for common medical procedures that they say result from widespread hospital [...]

Byline: Eddie Small and Amanda D'Ambrosio New York has long lagged behind cities like Boston and San Diego in the life sciences industry. While this was generally seen as a [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Flatiron District-based home care startup Vesta Healthcare raised money from investors this month to serve people in more states. Vesta Healthcare, a virtual home care navigation provider, [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Mount Sinai Hospital saw its profits drop in the second quarter of this year, adding financial stress to the health system as it continues to dump money [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Midtown health system NYU Langone has opened two primary care walk-in clinics in Manhattan to pick up patients who aren't tethered to a physician -- part of [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio and Amanda Glodowski The state Health Department has approved Beth Israel's closure plan with some conditions. The state says Mount Sinai must operate a new urgent care [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio SUNY Downstate's former head of emergency medicine embezzled nearly $1.5 million from the financially struggling hospital for personal travel, his kids' school tuition payments and a luxury [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Most New Yorkers are set to lose paid sick leave for Covid-19 next summer, per a budget deal between Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers. But for [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Dr. Robert Grossman, NYU Langone's CEO, and Kenneth Langone, chair of the board of trustees, are both set to retire next year, the health system said June [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Mount Sinai CEO Dr. Brendan Carr said the question of how long Beth Israel will be able to continue operating amid its planned closure is one he [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio ANDREW ADRIAN, 27 Manager, operations, department of surgery, trauma and critical care, Northwell Health's South Shore University Hospital Andrew Adrian was less than two years into his [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Life sciences businesses are eager for the passage of a new zoning plan that could expand neighborhoods where they can build labs despite new changes from city [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio L+M Development Partners filed plans last month to build affordable housing on a Bronx site owned by New York City Health + Hospitals, furthering city efforts to [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Gov. Kathy Hochul has allocated $58 million to rescue a financially ailing state fund that covers lifetime hospital costs for people hurt by medical malpractice at birth, [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio The human brain has been an interest of Dr. H. Jean Wright II since he was a kid. 'I was that 12-year-old nerd that went to the [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio A Queens substance use treatment provider won a $500 million contract with the city on May 14 to provide homeless shelter services at its new housing project [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio City Council members proposed a new law May 16 to require the city to staff every police precinct with a licensed social worker, part of an effort [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Overdose deaths across New York state decreased slightly according to newly released federal data, but experts say they are still at crisis level. More than 6,000 New [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Health plans and providers are pushing back on a legislative proposal that would overhaul how the state pays for home care, stating that it would cost -- [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed to cut funding for the agency overseeing addiction services in her recent budget proposal, sparking concerns that New York will be even more [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio A Flatiron-based health tech startup is boosting its efforts to catch cancer quicker. Ezra, which offers artificial intelligence-powered MRI scans that attempt to detect cancer before people [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Congenital syphilis, once nearly eradicated, has risen to record- high levels in New York City. Experts thank a dwindling public health system. New York City saw a [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio A massive affordable-housing project could replace a Brooklyn hospital as part of a 'transformation' of the SUNY Downstate campus that Gov. Kathy Hochul called for last month. [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio The state attorney general is pushing New York-Presbyterian executives to reconsider their decision to close the midwifery program at Allen Hospital in Inwood, stating that the shutdown [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio New York's efforts to expand the number of available beds at state-run psychiatric facilities have made it more prepared than most other states to address the mental [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed SUNY Downstate in East Flatbush to devise a 'transformation' plan to aid the financially struggling teaching hospital that has the potential to [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio State legislators renewed their calls to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act this month, continuing a nearly decadelong legislative debate to decide whether terminally ill New [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio State officials are calling for new operators to take over at Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Woodbury, claiming that the current owners of [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio A Manhattan helicopter company known for carting elite New Yorkers to the Hamptons reported growing revenue in a recent call with investors, thanks largely to its organ [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio In June, federal regulators released research guidance for classic psychedelics, marking the first time the government has offered suggestions for studying medicines like LSD, MDMA and psilocybin [...]

Byline: AMANDA D'AMBROSIO The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged a former Pfizer statistician with insider trading June 29, stating that the former employee and his friend used inside information [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio UV FELDMAN, 28 Executive pastry chef, Manhatta Israel native UV Feldman finished her training as a pastry chef at the Culinary Institute of America in New York [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio MELODY QIU, 29 Vice president of business strategy and analytics, Progyny Melody Qiu pays close attention to the numbers. As the vice president of business strategy and [...]

Byline: AMANDA D'AMBROSIO AND JACQUELINE NEBER For years Lili Rosen, a trans woman from Brooklyn, didn't feel at home in her body. She felt detached, like her body was a [...]

Byline: AMANDA D'AMBROSIO Earlier this month, the federal government ended the Covid-19 public health emergency, transitioning the country from a period of historic investments in population health and preventive care. [...]

Byline: Amanda D'Ambrosio The majority of New Yorkers living in poverty who have high health needs faced significant barriers to accessing medical care during the pandemic, a challenge that has [...]

Byline: AMANDA D'AMBROSIO The federal government declared Covid-19 a public health emergency on Jan. 31, 2020, launching a patchwork of federal programs that flooded the city with more than $26 [...]

Byline: AMANDA D'AMBROSIO As offices across the city face vacancy rates similar to those during the pandemic, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer officially opened its new global headquarters in Hudson Yards last [...]

Byline: AMANDA D'AMBROSIO Most medical supplies, whether it be masks, rubber gloves or syringes, are disposable--thrown away after a single use. But a company based in Williamsburg is trying to [...]

Byline: AMANDA D'AMBROSIO Amid a slowdown in digital health investments that set the tone for 2022, a potential recession, dwindling initial public offerings and, now, the banking crisis have put [...]

Byline: AMANDA D'AMBROSIO The New York City Fire Department has proposed to increase how much it charges patients and insurers for ambulance transportation, a bid that has raised concerns among [...]

Byline: AMANDA D'AMBROSIO Just a few years after starting her career as a surgical intensive care unit nurse at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn in 1989, Nancy Hagans became the [...]