Financial cuts, archaic information systems, and disconnects between state and federal agencies hampered the public health response, a top Michigan official says.
Federal Medicaid work rules could strip coverage for thousands of NYC enrollees, especially in 3 congressional districts reaching parts of the Bronx, upper Manhattan, and Queens.
More than 74,000 adults over age 50 sought titer tests since last year, exclusive data shows.
The new federal rule threatens widespread funding, including NYC health department and community groups
Most of the people who have caught Legionnaires’ on the Upper East Side have been hospitalized. A survivor recalls her own long recovery.
Financial cuts, archaic information systems, and disconnects between state and federal agencies hampered the public health response, a top Michigan official says.
Federal Medicaid work rules could strip coverage for thousands of NYC enrollees, especially in 3 congressional districts reaching parts of the Bronx, upper Manhattan, and Queens.
The new federal rule threatens widespread funding, including NYC health department and community groups
More than 74,000 adults over age 50 sought titer tests since last year, exclusive data shows.
Most of the people who have caught Legionnaires’ on the Upper East Side have been hospitalized. A survivor recalls her own long recovery.
Wildfire smoke prompted NYC officials to move summer school activities indoors and reschedule field trips.
Almost two weeks after health officials confirmed the first two Legionnaires’ cases, questions abound. Healthbeat asked an infectious disease expert about the pneumonia-like illness.
NYC passed a law seeking to curb Legionnaires’ cases. An outbreak on the Upper East Side highlights scant enforcement.
Staten Island once logged the second-highest number of fatal drug overdoses. Health advocates hope vending machines with free naloxone kits will keep those numbers down.
Dr. Alister Martin’s unconventional CV, ranging from ER doctor to civic innovation startup founder, offers clues for why Mayor Zohran Mamdani tapped him as NYC’s top health official.
Rabies is 100% preventable, but systems designed to protect animal and human health must work together.
Thousands of New Yorkers face tough decisions over health insurance as ‘Essential Plan’ coverage for some comes to an end. Here’s a look at how one Brooklyn resident is weighing her options.
The decision affecting a hantavirus cruise ship passenger raises new questions about federal quarantine powers and whether less restrictive alternatives are being properly considered.
This is the second baby formula recall in seven months related to infant botulism. Advocates say the cases raise questions about product safety and federal oversight.
Public health experts say secrecy around federal quarantine decisions can undermine trust in the government.
The CDC can only order quarantines for specific diseases put on a list by presidential executive order. A public health law expert told Healthbeat that federal officials’ novel approach — arguing that hantavirus is a type of severe acute respiratory syndrome — risks a legal challenge.
Internal records show how the South Carolina outbreak started with just four households, then spread through networks of unvaccinated people.
It has all the ingredients of a thriller movie and brings back memories of the beginnings of Covid. But the risk to the global population is low.
Access to essential medications is at risk. Babies are dying because parents are refusing the vitamin K shot. And homicide and suicide are now the leading causes of death in pregnant women.
Moxidectin has proven effective for river blindness and elephantiasis. But there’s little financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies to invest in a drug whose target market is the very poorest people in the world.