New York City Health News

U.S. drug regulators asked on Friday for manufacturers of prescription pain medications to provide more specifics on an industry plan to curb growing abuse of morphine, methadone, oxycodone and other opioid drugs. The Food and Drug Administration in February had...

TeleTech Holdings Inc. , a Doug las County-based provider of business-process outsourcing solutions, announced plans to host its fifth Spirit of the Season holiday event at Harrington Elementary, 2401 E...On Monday, TeleTech employees will transform the school into a winter...

The National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that 11 new cell lines from Dr. George Daley at Children's Hospital Boston and two lines from Ali Brivanlou at Rockefeller University in New York became the first additions to the NIH Human...

WHO warns that with new H5N1 bird flu cases reported in poultry in Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, the risk of bird flu and the H1N1 pandemic swine flu virus mixing was heightened Hanoi: Vietnam's Ministry of Health says a...

The secretary of state said such steps provide hope in the fight against the pandemic.  "We can take some heart in the progress that has been made over the last two decades," she said. "Access to antiretroviral treatment in low-...

U.S. health authorities have made pregnant women one of the highest priority groups for getting the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, but is it actually safe for pregnant women and their babies? Well, the truth is that miscarriage reports from pregnant...

It took awhile for the "swine flu" vaccine to arrive, but there's been no shortage of takers since. There's plenty of demand for the so-called seasonal flu shot, too. As the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the...

Filippa Hamilton, a Ralph Lauren clothing model said she was fired for being too fat. Hamilton is 5-foot-10-inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. Polo Ralph Lauren said in a statement Tuesday night that "Filippa is a beautiful and healthy woman...