From limiting outdoor exposure to wearing a mask to cleaning air filters — New Yorkers can take steps to protect themselves.
A $1.6 million settlement requires the city to clean up the Wolff-Alport Chemical Company Superfund site that borders Bushwick.
Swissport employees allege they are exposed to health and safety dangers inside and outside planes.
The state's Department of Health says the change is "due to the changing landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Having a baby in New York City? A handful of maternity hospitals deserve your attention, according to a ranking by Newsweek.
Now, with thousands of New York City kids still showing unsafe lead levels per year, City Council is considering a new package of laws.
Author Bill Leone lost his wife to a rare illness. His journey into grief led him to write a memoir, "My Life With My Wife," about grief.
Schools are straining to keep up with counseling demand as mental health woes mount for young people.
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“They come. They clean it up and it happens again,” said Lewis. “This is too much. It’s been here for years.”
Just three New York City hospitals received an "A" grade for safety, while 26 receiving a middling "C," according to a new Leapfrog study.
Jasmine Blake, a NYCHA veteran, will be the city's "lead compliance officer," officials announced Tuesday.
The Supreme Court could temporarily ban Wednesday a New York pharmaceutical company from mailing out the nation's most common abortion drug.
Kathleen Corradi, a city education official, will take the long-promised job: “You’ll be seeing a lot of me, and a lot less rats.”
A New Yorker fell ill with salmonella in a nationwide outbreak that health officials have linked to flour.
No joke, New Yorkers starting April 1 will have to wait till 8 p.m. to put their plastic garbage bags to the curb.
More than 3,000 pounds of Angus beef sent to restaurants and hotels across the northeast have been recalled, officials said.
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New York City is a hotspot for the drug-resistant Candida auris fungus.
The New York Blood Center declared 2023's first "blood emergency" as Type O Negative supply threatened to reach its final drop in one day.
Hold onto your lunch — a recent rise in emergency room visits for vomiting coincided with the spread of norovirus in the city.
But reducing fatal overdoses could depend on whether the city can build more safe drug injection sites, officials said.
But somehow New York's toilets aren't the absolute worst in the U.S., the survey found.
A newly unveiled memo details an unusual and obscure arrangement for more than $100 million in spending on hotels and health care.
As pandemic-era restrictions lift, all the city’s coronavirus indicators are officially “decreasing.”
Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that COVID vaccination will soon be optional for current and prospective city workers.
According to the city's health department, the transmission of mpox has remained very low for two consecutive months.
Households with induction stoves showed a 35% decrease in nitrogen dioxide and a nearly 43% difference in carbon monoxide.
The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant may be the most transmissible form of COVID-19 yet known, but city cases are still officially "decreasing."
A sweeping "New York City Women's Health Agenda" includes a suite of women's health measures beyond abortion access, Mayor Eric Adams said.
"There's no place that's immune from what's happening with the nursing shortage," Michelle Collins said. "It's everywhere."
The Big Apple crawled up to the number two spot in the Orkin ranking, despite a dip in reported infestations in 2022.
Overdose deaths in 2021 were 78 percent higher than just two years before, according to newly released numbers.
"I'm glad to have it over with," a nurse — one of 7,000 on strike — said after a union struck a deal with two major city hospitals.
"We're in a crisis," an advocate said as officials have yet to release the overdose death toll in New York City from 2021 and 2022.
Nurses at Mt. Sinai and Montefiore walked off the job Monday morning to try and force their employers to treat them like “valuable people."
There are care clinics for long COVID, local support groups, and ideas from those living with this illness.
"New York City is prepared," Mayor Eric Adams said before nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai Hospital systems walked out Monday.
About 10,000 nurses at five city hospital systems will strike Jan. 9 if they can't reach deals, according to their union.
The XBB subvariant is among the most antibody-resistant variants of COVID-19, according to a recent study.