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 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 ...

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

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 ...

A person living in New York tested positive for the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in the first reported transmission within the US in six years, officials said on Tuesday. The chikungunya virus is ...

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

The state health department had news that was both bitter and sweet, much like the vapes about 13% of high schoolers in New ...

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 ...