Health & Wellness

New York City is recognizing a physician whose work has quietly shaped care across some of its most underserved communities.

Nearly $4 million will be allocated for major improvements in women’s health, pediatrics and patient spaces.

A yearlong Crown Heights program empowers participants to take control of their health with consistent fitness, nutrition guidance and peer accountability.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the city Health Department will connect pregnant individuals and their families with resources to support them through pregnancy and early childhood from April 11 to April 17.

Older New Yorkers make up 20% of the city’s population, yet the New York City Department for the Aging receives just half of one penny of every dollar the city spends.

Nurses at the Fort Greene hospital say management needs to steady their health care fund over the long term so they do not lose benefits again.

New York City Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health unveiled a $2 million expansion of its Oncology and Infusion Center, nearly doubling capacity and adding new cancer support services.

Once the merger with New York City Health + Hospitals closes, the maternity ward will likely get a major overhaul.

From March 1 through March 5, all regular blood donors who make a donation at New York Blood center's Brooklyn Donor Center will be entered into a daily sweepstakes, drawing five winners each day, for a chance to win two tickets to the Nets vs. Hawks game on April 3 at Barclays Center.

Simcha Weinstein, a rabbi and autism advocate from Brooklyn, is named to New York’s Developmental Disabilities Council following years of statewide advocacy.