New York City’s rates are highest in the Bronx, where 1 in 5 residents and 1 in 3 children experience food insecurity.
A challenge many older adults face is a need to improve their nutrition, which often includes grappling with habits and root causes.
Many worry about how Trump might reshape federal health policy — and how those changes could curtail local public health initiatives.
The 26.2-mile marathon will begin at 8 a.m. in Staten Island and continue in waves until 11:30 a.m.
New regulations under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) took effect, mandating that radiologists document breast density in their
The decline — from 3,070 deaths in 2022 to 3,046 deaths in 2023, a 1% decrease — was slight but promising, city officials said.
The number of overdose deaths in New York City in 2023 was 3,046 — a 1 percent decrease from 3,070 in 2022.
Hidden within the images of breast tissue, tiny calcium deposits line the arteries in some women.
Ten people have died in a listeria outbreak linked to recalled Boar's Head meats, including 2 New Yorkers; 17 NY residents have fallen ill.
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It will likely come as no surprise to New Yorkers, but the public bathrooms in city parks are indeed a mess, according to a new report.
Nationally, the number of cases has more than tripled since this time last year. Newborns are at the greatest risk of getting seriously ill.
Boar's Head recalled 7 million pounds of meat amid a nationwide listeria outbreak that has now killed 9 people and hospitalized dozens.
The vaccines, which will be available soon, are designed to target recent COVID strains that have contributed to a summer surge nationwide.
The 63-year-old was seen by a medical professional and sent back to his housing unit on Monday.
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This announcement comes after the virus was found in mosquitoes in all five boroughs in the city last month, health officials said.
More than two dozen states are reporting “very high” levels and another 17 report “high” levels of wastewater viral activity, data shows.
These rankings examine which communities "offer the greatest opportunity to live a healthy, productive life," study authors said.
A plan to clean up the contaminated soil was finally proposed by Con Ed four years ago, but not one cubic yard of dirt has been removed.
According to the NYC Department of Health’s tracker, mosquitoes with the virus has been tracked to 65 zip codes in the last two weeks.
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U.S. News & World Report released its new rankings of the best hospitals across the country, and a number of NYC hospitals were selected.
The CDC said countries in the Americas have reported more than 9.7 million dengue cases so far this year. See New York City cases.
Erectile dysfunction (ED), the most common of these disorders, affects 52 percent of men between the ages of 40 and 70.
A 30-year-old NYC man contracted the ringworm after visiting Europe where he had sex with multiple men, a case study found.
The dark green cucumbers were shipped to NYC last month, FDA officials said. A sample later tested positive for Salmonella bacteria.
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The gay, lesbian, and bisexual community faces higher odds of having heart-related chronic diseases.
It also helps avoid wrinkles, age and sun spots, and uneven skin tone and texture.
At least one of three sickened New Yorkers fell ill after an unlicensed Botox injection, city health officials said in a warning Friday.
The deal struck between Mount Sinai and UnitedHealthcare comes just days before patients' doctors would be out-of-network.
Only a few New York City hospitals were among the 444 nationwide on new Healthgrades rankings.
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UnitedHealthcare patients lost in-network coverage at Mount Sinai hospitals Friday, and its doctors will go out-of-network March 22.
Amid confirmation of the cases, health officials said child vaccination rates remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to a report.
Recent data from the CDC shows cases of norovirus spiking in recent weeks in New York City and several Northeast states.
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