The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued an air quality alert for the New York City metro ...

“The FDA obviously affects what gets approved, but once things are approved, it’s a states’ rights issue,” Dr. Mitchell Katz, ...

Also, Gov. Kathy Hochul revived New York’s congestion pricing plan. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday, ...

NYU Langone Health is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to consider the financial burden of congestion pricing​ on patients and ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus.

Kennedy has been criticized for making false medical claims, including that vaccines are linked to autism. He also suggested ...

By Dana Rubinstein New York City has fluoridated its tap water since 1965, when Mayor Eric Adams was 5 years old. The U.S.

The CDC did not break out most data for county or region, but for New York State in 2023, there were 12,393 cases of all ...

Another November brings another report by the state Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Board, a group of experts brought ...