Young New Yorkers could have to wait three more years before being allowed to buy cigarettes. The New York Post reports City Council Speaker, and ...

NEW YORK -- Subway riders, after being cautioned about smoking, sugar and teen pregnancy, are getting a new message: Pass on the salt. The city's Dep...

NEW YORK -- New York City is asking appeals judges to reinstate a ban on supersized sodas and other sugary drinks, which was struck down by a Manhatta...

NEW YORK -- Walk into any convenience store or gas station in the country, and chances are the cigarettes will be in roughly the same spot: at eye lev...

NEW YORK — Cigarettes would have to be kept out of sight in New York City stores under a first-in-the-nation plan unveiled by Mayor Michael Bloo...

NEW YORK — Despite Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bullishness, political realities and legal questions make for an uncertain future for one of the pr...

Michael Bloomberg's plan to limit the sale of large, sugary drinks has proven to be one of the most divisive initiatives of his three terms as mayor o...

A day before New York CIty's unprecedented soda ban was set to begin, Reuters reports a judge has rejected the restrictions, calling the initiative "...

Lady Gaga might love the pasta dishes at Joanne Trattoria, after all her parents own the Upper West Side restaurant, but don't expect city health insp...

In light of the shocking report linking newborn babies with herpes infections in the weeks after undergoing Metzitzah B'peh circumcisions, the city's ...

NEW YORK — New York City's Board of Health signaled strong support Tuesday for the mayor's plan to fight obesity by banning the sale of large, s...

* Says limiting drink size sends a message * Ban won't limit freedom to drink sugary products-official * Industry defend...

A new report conducted by The Daily News reveals more Subway restaurants have been closed due to health violations than any other chain in the city, w...

MANHATTAN -- Health inspectors hit the chic West Village restaurant Bobo with 62 health violation points on Saturday, forcing it to close.  The He...

MANHATTAN -- Morningside Heights has more dirty restaurants than any other neighborhood in Manhattan, according to a new analysis of Health Department...

At first, it seems like a run of the mill PSA about the dangers of sugary drinks. There's an overweight gentleman, enjoying a soda in the morning, ...

There's good news for anyone planning to go out for dinner this evening. New York City's Health Department released the results of its first round o...

WASHINGTON - The staggering death toll for Ground Zero responders has soared past 916 - and still no one knows what really killed them. Now, nine y...

The city's health department released a report that says 38.7% percent of New York's pregnancies in 2009 were aborted. While the number of induced ter...

The problem that now confronts the public health structures of New York City and State is that both have not paid for their major community AIDS preve...

ON the matter of bicycling under the influence, Michael Dolan has known both pleasure and pain....

New York street vendors are almost all immigrants. They don't carry guns. But one thing is for sure. Like members of the Tea Party, they mostly just want the government to leave them alone.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state health officials have suspended a ruling that would have forced health care workers across the state to get vaccin...

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg – who is known to shake salt on his pizza – is focusing on sodium as the next unhealthy ...

In light of all of Mayor Bloomberg's recent health initiatives, the non-profit Center for Consumer Freedom is asking, "When did the Big Apple become B...