The NYC Department of Health is quietly planning to hire an outside consultant to train and set up protocols to protect ...

Less than half of New York's nearly 100,000 largely elderly and disabled nursing home residents are up-to-date on their COVID ...

The New York State Department of Health is urging nursing homes and adult care facilities to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates ...

The case was confirmed in Nassau County. It's the first locally-acquired case reported in the U.S. since 2019, and the first-ever locally acquired case in New York. Three other cases of chikungunya ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- The New York Department of Health is highlighting its Newborn Screening Program to detect serious, but treatable conditions, in newborns. Every year, more than 205,000 babies born ...

Five years after the coronavirus pandemic, the state Department of Health is pleading ignorance about one of its most hotly debated policy choices of the crisis — a directive that sent thousands of ...

Out of 13 health inspections conducted in Chemung County last month, one had critical violations, 10 had no violations, and ...

Dr. Ann Marie Sullivan, commissioner of the state Office of Mental Health, is charged with carrying out Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ...

The New York State Department of Health has confirmed a case of locally acquired chikungunya on Long Island, marking the first case of the virus reported to be locally acquired in New York and the ...

Kendra Scalia has found herself on the front line of a battle to save services and maintain quality of life for more than 70,000 New Yorkers, including herself. At her home in rural Orange County on ...

New York health officials have confirmed the state’s first locally acquired case of chikungunya virus and the first such case in the country in six years.