Health Care

A patient receives a vaccination.
Health Care
Health care proposals are heating up
Hot-button issues span vaccines, single-payer health care and the Medical Aid in Dying Act.
By REBECCA C. LEWIS
Policy
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Is there enough time to legalize recreational marijuana?
Health Care
Closing the window on recreational marijuana
Some advocates say the support is there, but time may be running out.
By REBECCA C. LEWIS
Policy
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A child in a wheelchair.
Health Care
Is the Justice Center just?
Critics say a state agency that investigates abuse and neglect in facilities serving people with special needs is unfair to the accused.
By ALISA PARTLAN, HELLA WINSTON
Policy
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Members of the Hasidic community in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.
Health Care
Why rabbis can’t contain the measles outbreak
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities are becoming less deferential to their religious leadership.
By AARON SHORT
Policy
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This Week’s Headlines
Ballooning budget, congestion concession and pharma felonies
Rounding up the week’s political news.
By REBECCA C. LEWIS
News & Politics
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Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried speaking during the "Making Health Coverage Available and Affordable to All New Yorkers" panel at City & State's Healthy NY Summit, Wednesday morning.
Health Care
No state Senate single-payer vote before 2020
But the hot-button health care issue is only heating up.
By REBECCA C. LEWIS
Policy
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The debate over vaccination policy has always been contentious.
Health Care
A guide to New York’s vaccination policy
New York City declared a public health emergency over a measles outbreak. This is why some children aren’t immunized.
By ANNIE MCDONOUGH
Policy
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The drinking water supply for offices of the New York City Department of Sanitation doesn’t even have a roof – just a tattered tarp.
Energy & Environment
New York City to pass water tank reforms
The City Council is poised to vote on bills addressing contamination, lax oversight.
By FRANK G. RUNYEON
Policy
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Karen Franz, Cathleen Collins and state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi.
Above & Beyond
The 2019 Women of New York Health Care
Five noteworthy women working in health care.
By CITY & STATE
Influential List Gallery
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Mark Levine, New York City Council Health Committee chairman.
Interviews & Profiles
Mark Levine on marijuana, e-cigarettes and the need to vaccinate
The New York City Council Health Committee chairman offers his diagnosis.
By JEFF COLTIN
Personality
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