New York and other states across the Northeast issued new COVID-19 vaccine recommendations last week that advise everyone six months and older to get the updated shot this fall, bucking federal guidance under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Food ...

Marking a critical step forward in researching a long-misunderstood and misdiagnosed progressive brain disorder, a new law signed recently by Gov. Kathy Hochul will create a registry for frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) diagnoses in New York.

New York's plan would end Essential Plan coverage for about 17,000 people in Westchester County. In Monroe County, nearly 16,000 would lose health coverage they had previously had under New York's Essential Plan. Some 450,000 New Yorkers enrolled in the ...

Out of 13 health inspections conducted in Chemung County last month, one had critical violations, 10 had no violations, and two had unfixed violations remaining from previous inspections, according to new reports released by the Chemung County Health Department.

It passed in June with unanimous support from both Democrats and Republicans in the state Senate and Assembly.

Dr. Ann Marie Sullivan, commissioner of the state Office of Mental Health, is charged with carrying out Gov. Kathy Hochul’s agenda for transforming the state’s mental health system, along with expanding care to New Yorkers throughout the state. To date, $2 billion has been spent on the expansion of services, supports and capacity across New York.

The New York City Department of Health is pitching a major, yearslong expansion of community health worker programs as a way to tackle chronic disease and extend New Yorkers’ life expectancy.