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Speaker Julie Menin said the City Council will explore ways to protect patient privacy after a combative hearing with a SpaceX representative over the company’s AI guardrails.
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Oscar Belgal, the man shot by ICE agents in Marble Hill on Thursday, has not received urgent surgery to remove a bullet in his neck while he remains in federal custody, according to his lawyers.
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The city has increased the number of shelter beds for runaway and homeless youth but operators say they’re being squeezed by reimbursement rates that are stuck at pre-pandemic levels.
“There is nothing left to trim.”
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The city has declared the UES Legionnaires’ outbreak over, one month after the deadly disease was first reported spreading through the neighborhood. Seven people have died, putting it on par with last year's Harlem cluster. Five remain hospitalized.
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Speaker Julie Menin accused the Health Department of keeping residents in the dark and dragging its feet in response to the deadly UES Legionnaires’ outbreak. Lawmakers are planning more bills and an oversight hearing on the city's approach to the disease.
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A second person has died amid a Legionnaires’ outbreak that’s sickened dozens on the UES. A senior from the impacted area died Friday evening after spending weeks in intensive care, his lawyer said.
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The legal fallout of the ongoing Upper East Side Legionnaires’ outbreak is already heating up. The family of a victim in critical condition has retained a lawyer with a history of suing city over past outbreaks and more cases are in the works.
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The city has ordered clean-up efforts at 45 more buildings that tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease in an ongoing effort to stem an Upper East Side outbreak that has sickened at least 60 people.
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EMTs were forced to set up triage checkpoints to collect patients and walk or carry them out of the parade last month after huge crowds spilled into designated emergency lanes and blocked exits. FDNY treated 79 people, 43 of whom were taken to a hospital.
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At 11pm the night of Game 5, FDNY had a backlog of 300 emergency medical calls from 911, according to the paramedics union.
Mass revelry snarled emergency responses in Manhattan last month as the Knicks’ championship run electrified the city. My latest: crainsnewyork.com/health-car…
The region’s blood supply dropped to worrying levels after weekend storms and last week's excessive heat shuttered donation centers and disrupted drives across the metro area, according to the city's primary blood bank.
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Mamdani just committed to releasing the addresses of cooling towers that tested positive for Legionnella after 23 people were sicked on the Upper East Side. Then-Mayor Eric Adams was criticized for not informing residents of the source of the deadly Harlem outbreak last year.
Last year, the Health Department initially told me it was keeping the Harlem addresses secret to avoid a panic. crainsnewyork.com/health-pul…
Adams later falsely blamed the secrecy on HIPAA, which protects personal health information, before his office walked back those claims last summer. The administration eventually released the addresses of two city-owned properties linked to the outbreak.
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I spoke with Knicks lead physician Dr. Daphne Scott about keeping the championship team spry and why there are so few women top doctors in the NBA.
"A lot of people in these roles stay in these roles for many, many years."
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Scott could be seen walking Jalen Brunson off the court after his Game 1 knee injury. "It is a high-stress time. In medicine one of the things you’re told before you go respond to a situation is the first pulse you should take is your own."
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Legal Aid lawyers who raised concerns last week about the city's chronic failures to address heat conditions in jails, cautiously commended the Department of Correction's initial preparations as an improvement from past administrations.
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City health officials are investigating a likely community cluster of Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side. The cluster is thought to be of the same type that caused the deadly Harlem outbreak last summer, which is spread by infested cooling towers.crainsnewyork.com/health-car…
The Mamdani administration has set a summer date for the final closure of the notorious Midtown shelter known as Bellevue following a court victory earlier this week.
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Former First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro, the pugnacious lawyer and ally of Eric Adams, has entered the fight to block an East Village shelter that is part of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to shutter the Bellevue intake center in Midtown.
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