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The New York eHealth Collaborative has announced the three winners of its Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, launched earlier this year in which designers submitted portal prototypes for the not-for-profit organization.
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A federal judge in New York on Friday declined to temporarily halt a court order directing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make emergency contraception available over the counter to girls of all ages.
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Quest Diagnostics Inc. will pay a $70,000 penalty and no longer automatically disqualify job applicants with prior arrests or criminal convictions as part of a settlement agreement with the New York attorney general's office.
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New Yorkers yesterday got to test-drive the designs of nine companies that entered the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge sponsored by the New York eHealth Collaborative, in partnership with Health 2.0.
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The government is moving the morning-after pill over the counter but only those 15 and older can buy it.
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PITTSBURGH—UPMC, a not-for-profit health system with its tax-exempt status under attack, is fighting back with a lawsuit against its hometown and mayor. The health system's lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Pennsylvania, alleges the city of Pittsburgh...
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SUNY Downstate Medical Center announced Friday afternoon that it has withdrawn a closure plan it filed with the New York State Department of Health for Long Island College Hospital.
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Hundreds of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally have been repatriated not by the federal government trying to enforce laws but by hospitals seeking to curb high costs.
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So-called social adult day care centers have mushroomed in New York with the cost of attendance being paid indirectly by Medicaid.
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A bipartisan Senate immigration bill could boost the nation's healthcare workforce in addition to expanding coverage to millions of newly legal residents.
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