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Nurses at two of New York City’s largest hospitals went on strike Monday, potentially leading to disruptions in care around emergency room visits and childbirth, after lengthy weekend negotiations over a new contract stalled. Frustrated nurses chanted and waved signs outside Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan demanding higher wages. The walkout involves...

If you’re 65 years of age or older, you will have first priority in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced. In South Florida, both Miami-Dade and Broward counties are offering the vaccine to seniors in the 65-and-older age bracket, but note that demand for the vaccine is currently outweighing supply. For real-time updates regarding vaccine availability, click…

Cleveland Clinic and Jackson Health System announced they will begin to roll out vaccines to certain members of the public.

Dr. Janet Shapiro recovered from COVID-19 but she soon found that she had developed heart disease — and now doctors are documenting a rare trend of possible long-term effects of the novel coronavirus.

Broadway actress Laurel Griggs suffered an asthma attack just before she died last week at age 13, her grandfather says. David Rivlin revealed the news on Facebook. “It’s with heavy heart that I have to share some very sad news. My beautiful and talented granddaughter, Laurel Griggs, has passed away suddenly from a massive asthma attack,” he wrote. “Mount Sinai...

A source tells NBC 5 that her family was likely discriminated at when they arrived at the hospital, forcing them to wait outside for hours in the cold.

The 7-year-old girl who was trick-or-treating on Halloween in Chicago’s West Side with her family remains in critical condition Friday as police interrogated a juvenile in custody. The girl was one of two people injured in the shooting that took place at around 5:30 p.m. in the 3700 block of West 26th Street in the city’s Little Village neighborhood, according...

A 7-year-old girl was critically hurt after she was shot while trick-or-treating in Chicago on Thursday. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has all the late breaking details from Little Village.

Detectives are investigating after a child was shot and critically hurt in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood on the West Side.

A mental health technician at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach is accused of sexually battering a patient.

American diplomats affected by mysterious health incidents in Cuba showed damage in the inner ear shortly after they complained of weird noises and sensations, according to their earliest medical exams, publicized Wednesday.

Viruses that sneak into the brain just might play a role in Alzheimer’s, scientists reported Thursday in a provocative study that promises to re-ignite some long-debated theories about what triggers the mind-robbing disease. The findings don’t prove viruses cause Alzheimer’s, nor do they suggest it’s contagious. But a team led by researchers at New York’s Mount Sinai Health System found...

A Lyft driver and another motorist were charged with driving under the influence after being involved in a head-on crash early Friday that left a rideshare passenger dead and another rider hurt in the Logan Square neighborhood just north of Humboldt Park, police said.

The Florida Department of Health said there are more flu outbreaks being reported this season – 107 cases so far, some deadly – than in previous years.

Big Orange barely rang in the new year in downtown Miami before the first South Florida babies of 2018 were being born.

Environmental pollution — from filthy air to contaminated water — is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 — about 9 million — could be attributed to disease...

Expecting parents planned a home birth, but ended up giving birth at a hospital. They had hoped to have the placenta preserved, but were told they would have needed to follow certain steps for that to happen.

A man whose father died after an altercation with a fellow patient at Miami Beach’s Mount Sinai Medical Center is speaking out, blaming one of South Florida’s biggest medical centers for ignoring the warning signs leading to his father’s murder.

The Miami Beach Planning Board voted 6-1 to approve the urgent care and mixed-medical facility at 709 Alton Road.

One woman has died and another is in critical condition after rescuers pulled them out of water in Miami Beach Sunday afternoon.