Joseph Goldstein

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat is a medical director for a chain of urgent care clinics. Her sister served as an adviser in the first Trump administration.

With the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, a formerly fringe opinion suddenly gets wide attention.

After Some Columbia Donors Pause Gifts, Medical School Gets $400 Million

The Northwell Health system allowed filmmakers to make documentaries following its doctors, nurses and patients. It went so well, the hospital is starting a studio to make its own.

Nurses enjoy more protections now than they did before the pandemic. A large hospital system, NewYork-Presbyterian, has fought some of their gains, including by appealing to the Supreme Court.

New York State’s stockpile of antiviral medications for flu contains only one drug, Tamiflu, leaving no fallback plan.

The health facility’s potential closure had been contentious following the shuttering of other hospitals serving Lower Manhattan.

Christine Fields’s family was tight-knit. But after she died in childbirth, grief and the prospect of a multimillion-dollar settlement threatened to tear it apart.

Though many hospital and nursing home employees remain unvaccinated, officials say worst-case staffing shortages seem less likely.

The health care system has stockpiles of medicine and has worked out “a lot of the kinks” since the Covid pandemic. But experts still have some concerns about a bird flu outbreak.