The NYC Department of Health is quietly planning to hire an outside consultant to train and set up protocols to protect ...

The New York City Department of Health is pitching a major, yearslong expansion of community health worker programs as a way ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- West Nile virus has been detected in two people and a record number of mosquitoes in New York City, according to the NYC Health Department. The department announced Tuesday ...

New York health officials have confirmed the state’s first locally acquired case of chikungunya virus and the first such case in the country in six years.

This latest case was confirmed through laboratory testing at the Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center in Nassau County on Long Island. A locally acquired case of chikungunya has not been reported ...

The New York State Department of Health is urging nursing homes and adult care facilities to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates ...

If you flew at this major Northeast transit hub, you may have been exposed to measles — and you may be infected and not even know it.

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- The New York City Health Department declared the Legionnaires' outbreak in Central Harlem officially over on Friday. Officials said that there have been no new Legionnaires ...

The case was confirmed in Nassau County. It's the first locally-acquired case reported in the U.S. since 2019, and the first-ever locally acquired case in New York. Three other cases of chikungunya ...

A state appeals court dismissed claims Tuesday that health officials rigged the contracting process for New York's $11 ...

The state health department had news that was both bitter and sweet, much like the vapes about 13% of high schoolers in New ...