Health Policy

About 26,500 New Yorkers have lost SNAP benefits under new federal work requirements, raising concerns about the financial toll on neighborhood bodegas.

Thursday’s changes come as states warn millions of Medicaid recipients about sweeping new rules coming in January.

Since June, the FDA has issued seven alerts about weight-loss products with undisclosed drugs or chemicals, more than in 2024 and 2025 combined.

Trump’s tax and spending package threatens to remove millions from health insurance. Here’s a look at how Medicaid enrollees could be affected.

According to data the city released Thursday, the chronic absenteeism rate remains higher than pre-pandemic levels.

‘Ghost providers’ in Medicaid managed care directories can make it harder to find OB/GYNs and midwives.

New York City Council to hear new legislation looking at enforcement, inspection and transparency in an effort to prevent future Legionnaires’ outbreaks.

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

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.

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.

The strategy's broad goals are widely supported by public health researchers, addiction treatment clinicians, and recovery advocates. But accomplishing such goals will be difficult in the face of the administration’s funding cuts and layoffs.

The new laws would make more doggy bags available publicly, create composting at dog parks, and more.