Health

The Siena College Research Institute poll found that 35% of New Yorkers think all of the time about protecting themselves and their family from getting COVID-19, while 43% think about it some of the time.

Millions more Americans can get a COVID-19 booster and choose a different company's vaccine for that next shot, federal health officials said Thursday.

With more than half the world still not vaccinated, the virus will likely keep finding people to infect and replicating inside them for several months or years to come. 

The pandemic shut down live studio audience productions last year, but the filming of Annie Live! at Gold Coast Studios in Bethpage is slated to be the first show shot before an audience since the start of the pandemic.

Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer among women in the United States. But those diagnosed have plenty of reasons to be hopeful, through screenings with new technology such as 3D mammograms.

A salmonella outbreak tied to onions has sickened more than 650 people in 37 states, U.S. health officials said.

Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer among women in the United States. But those diagnosed have plenty of reasons to be hopeful, through screenings with new technology such as 3D mammograms.

Regulators signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine and said anyone eligible for an extra dose can get a brand different from the one they received initially.

Jewish households across the region have experienced job losses, food insecurity, and anxiety and depression resulting from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a UJA-Federation of New York survey.

Children age 5 to 11 will soon be able to get a COVID-19 shot at their pediatrician's office, local pharmacy and potentially even their school, the White House said Wednesday as it detailed plans for the expected authorization of the Pfizer shot for younger children in a matter of weeks.