Caroline Lewis
Articles by Caroline Lewis
Caroline Lewis is on the health care beat for WNYC and Gothamist — and also covers cannabis, both with an eye towards equity and accountability. She was previously a health care reporter for Crain’s New York Business. Lewis has a degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and is a native New Yorker, although she has left occasionally. She did a Fulbright in Chile in 2011 and is fluent in Spanish. She now resides in Brooklyn.
But the report, released on Friday and commissioned by Gov. Kathy Hochul, says the former governor's policies for nursing homes reflected “the best understanding of the scientific community at the time."
Local residents can still get mifepristone pills via telemedicine and pharmacies after Thursday's ruling.
“Operation Padlock to Protect,” closed more than 300 stores suspected of making unlicensed cannabis sales between May 7 and June 3, according to Mayor Eric Adams' office.
The study's authors say the full extent of neurodegenerative disease experienced by 9/11 responders remains unknown.
NYC Health and Hospitals' CEO is pushing for the hospital, but says he's "agnostic" about who runs it.
Supplies of universal donor O-negative blood are particularly low.
It's a form of trichophyton mentagrophytes, which can cause ringworm in humans.
The legislation's text says it would not apply to closures that have already been proposed to the state health department.
The expansion of charity care mirrors new requirements for hospitals.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James and state lawmakers are set to pass a pair of social media bills that would make New York the first state to regulate social media algorithms for minors.
New York health officials say the city's in a much better position to deal with mpox than during 2022's outbreak, but cases are ticking up.
Gov. Kathy Hochul hasn't said if she'll sign the new legislation, which aims to curb costs by letting the state cap enrollment.
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