Health Care

Dozens of children in New York state have a rare and apparently newly documented inflammatory condition that may be linked to COVID-19. Now a boy in Westchester and another in New York City have died.

Marc Mosca is a science teacher. But he has also worked every weekend at a hospital. Since the pandemic hit, he has put his own health at risk on the front line.

Brooks Running is looking to team up with shoppers to give away 25,000 pairs of shoes to medical workers.

Medical staff clapping and cheering for Danny Wong as he was wheeled through the hallway to be discharged after 44 days.

New York authorities say that 64 children in the state were potentially affected by a serious inflammatory condition possibly linked with the coronavirus.

The NYU Langone Vaccine Center started the first clinical trial of possible antidotes in the United States.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says most COVID-19 patients coming into New York hospitals are not working and not traveling daily and tend to be older than 50. The governor released a survey that found retirees accounted for 37% of hospitalizations during the survey period and another 46% were unemployed. Almost three-quarters were 51 years or older.

The question is: Are these Kawasaki-like symptoms linked to the coronavirus infection?

The majority of people reporting so-called COVID toes never thought they were exposed to the coronavirus.

COVID-19 could have stamped a person “uninsurable” if not for the Affordable Care Act. The ban on insurers using preexisting conditions to deny coverage is a key part of the Obama-era law that the Trump administration still seeks to overturn.

New York is banding together with six nearby states to purchase equipment and supplies that sometimes have been hard to come by during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday.

Faced with 19,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them emergency protection from claims of inadequate care.

Companies large and small are collecting data, ranging from medical to financial information, about us amid this pandemic.

A New York City nursing home says nearly 100 of its residents have died from confirmed or suspected cases of the novel coronavirus. The Isabella Geriatric Center in Manhattan is among the hardest hit nursing homes in the state, with 46 confirmed fatalities and an additional 52 deaths of people suspected to have the virus.

Scientists have announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — in a major medical advance that comes as the economic gloom caused by the scourge deepens in the U.S. and Europe.