My Family Remembers
Just three out of every million Americans are diagnosed each year with a potentially fatal blood disease called Aplastic Anemia. Edward was one of them. He was 12 years old when he entered the hospital...
View ArticleInterfaith Medical Center Files for Bankruptcy
Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The hospital serves Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant and said revenue dropped following cuts to the Medicaid rate in...
View ArticleReexamining America's Mental Health System
Last month's tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut has spurred many people across the country to consider the United States's mental health care system -- and to worry that too often, the system allows...
View ArticleCity Hospitals Suffered $800M Worth of Sandy Damage
New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation estimates the damage from Sandy will exceed $800 million. The nation’s largest public hospital system announced the preliminary tally Tuesday with...
View ArticleAnesthesia Awareness and the Nature of Consciousness
Joshua Lang, medical student at the UC Berkeley/USCF Joint Medical Program and contributor to The Atlantic, discusses the problem of patients becoming aware while under anesthesia -- and why measuring...
View ArticleHealth Care Gets Heated at Candidates' Press Conferences
The mayoral campaigns of Christine Quinn and Bill de Blasio held tense, competing rallies outside the old St. Vincent's hospital site. The two camps slashed at each other's records — and it got...
View ArticleCEO of Chicago Public Hospitals to Take the Helm of HHC
A former Lutheran Hospital surgeon and Staten Island resident is moving back to New York to lead the country’s largest public hospital system.Dr. Ram Raju spent two years at the helm of Cooks County...
View ArticleCobble Hill Keeps (Part of) a Hospital
After months of secrecy, the State University of New York unveiled how five developers hope to transform Long Island College Hospital in the coming years. The developers each bid to purchase the...
View ArticleLong Island College Hospital ER and Clinic Deal Collapses
A deal to turn Brooklyn's Long Island College Hospital into a freestanding emergency room and outpatient clinics has fallen apart.NYU Langone Medical Center is withdrawing from the deal to run LICH,...
View ArticleIn Baltimore, A Healthcare Crisis for the Poor
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.The Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland is known for one of it's most successful residents: Thurgood Marshall, the first...
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