Insurers Pay Doctors To Push Generic Drugs
Two New York health insurance companies are rewarding doctors with cash incentives for prescribing generic drugs. The companies, Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rochester, N.Y., and Independent...
View ArticleVideo Games Helping Burn Patients
One of the most popular video game consoles on the market, the Nintendo Wii, is being used to rehabilitate burn patients. Therapists at the William Randolph Hearst Burn Center at NewYork-Presbyterian...
View ArticleSour Feelings Over Sweetener
For coffee and tea drinkers, choosing a sweetener pink, blue, or yellow packet? became more complicated with the introduction this month of Truvía, billed as "Nature's Calorie-Free Sweetener."...
View ArticleMount Sinai To Move Into $1B Campaign's Public Phase
Mount Sinai Medical Center has quietly raised $320 million and will soon move into the public phase of a $1 billion capital campaign. According to hospital leaders, the campaign is a signal that the...
View ArticleMontefiore Takes Over Our Lady Medical Center
Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx is expected to open a fourth division of its 1,100-bed hospital today, as it takes over the nearby Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center just after the stroke of...
View ArticleRockefeller Archive Gets Its Independence
The Rockefeller Archive Center which houses 80 million pages of documents, 750,000 photographs, and thousands of reels of microfilm has become an independent organization after 34 years of being...
View ArticleHospitals Try To Rein in Doctors' Rudeness
The nurse later said she sensed the surgeon was in a bad mood when he walked into the operating room. Things did not improve when she handed him the wrong size gloves, and they deteriorated further...
View ArticleCash-Strapped Brooklyn Hospital Plans To Shutter Obstetrics Department
A cash-strapped hospital in Brooklyn Heights announced plans today to stop delivering babies as part of a reorganization plan designed to solve some of the hospital's financial woes. Long Island...
View ArticleHospital Obstetrics Ward Will Close Amid Malpractice Crisis
A cash-strapped Brooklyn hospital will stop delivering babies, aiming to regain its financial footing and reduce its escalating medical malpractice costs. Long Island College Hospital, in the Cobble...
View ArticleGotbaum Seeks To Make Cesarean Rates Public
The public advocate, Betsy Gotbaum, is asking the city's health department to publicize cesarean section rates at New York City hospitals on its Web site. In a letter Ms. Gotbaum sent yesterday to the...
View ArticleHealth Groups Launch Infrastructure Agenda
A coalition of New York health care organizations has introduced a five-point agenda aimed at improving New York's primary care infrastructure. Calling the agenda a "road map" for lawmakers, the...
View ArticleNew York Hospitals Are Maneuvering in War on Cancer
In their quest to attract patients, recruit top researchers, and burnish their reputations, hospitals in New York City are setting their sights on cancer patients. Buoyed by scientific advances,...
View ArticleKidney Procedure Illustrates Some Wide-Ranging Possibilities
During a recent cross-country kidney transplantation a California woman received a kidney from an anonymous, living donor in New York the operation was the easy part. The bigger problem for...
View ArticleClosure of Hospital's Obstetrics Unit Is Criticized
The decision by Long Island College Hospital to close its obstetrics unit will deprive Brooklyn residents of needed maternity services, according to elected officials who plan to rally outside the...
View ArticleMoving Uptown, Couple Entices Friends To Follow
When Rabbi Elie Kaunfer and his wife, Lisa Exler, decided to move with their daughter to Washington Heights from the Upper West Side, they resolved to bring some of their friends with them. Several...
View ArticleSalary Talks May Lead to Home Health Aide Strike
A union representing 30,000 home health aides in New York City is stepping up a campaign to increase wages for its members, a message it plans to deliver at a rally today at Madison Square Garden. The...
View ArticleNursing Home CEO Arrested for Not Providing Workers' Compensation
The president and CEO of a Bronx nursing home that has been the focus of a probe by Attorney General Cuomo, and the site of multiple employee protests, has been arrested. The president of Kingsbridge...
View ArticleRare Device Aids N.Y. Brain Surgeons
Inside the operating room, three screens projected the magnified image of the patient's brain as surgeons prepared to remove a tumor. But all eyes were trained on one screen in particular: the one...
View ArticleCity Woman Is 120,000th Recipient of Cochlear Implant
For nearly 40 years, 72-yearold Susan Grossman suffered progressive hearing loss that restricted her use of the telephone and made listening to her favorite singer, Frank Sinatra, impossible. That...
View ArticleFederal Aid Could Avert Hospital Cuts
New York hospitals are turning to the federal government to offset Governor Paterson's proposal to slash Medicaid spending by more $500 million this year and $1 billion next year. Describing those cuts...
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