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Terry O'Leary, the new head of the New York State Health Department's Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, has his work cut out for him, retooling an agency to deal with the overprescribing of prescription painkillers.
The measure to ban indoor tanning outright for teenagers was approved 58-7 on Thursday, with 13 abstentions. It now heads to the Senate for consideration.
Major pharmaceutical companies saw dollar signs when they first began to push doctors to freely prescribe powerful opiate-based painkillers for just about anything, WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported. Now there is a major public health crisis.
Snoring can be loud and disruptive, it can make your partner miserable, and it can also be a sign of a serious breathing disorder. Sleep apnea can cause a person to temporarily stop breathing, it affects millions but a new treatment may silence the snoring.
Maria Basmas just experienced her first Mother's Day without her son Christopher. He died in October after overdosing on prescription painkillers. He was only 29-years-old.
Rivera has dropped nearly 30 pounds in the past year while updating followers on his Facebook page of his progress.
Florence Fiedler went to Yale-New Haven Hospital for a routine procedure, but what happened was anything but routine, WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau reported.
It's not just workers who were at the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 attacks who have suffered lingering health problems. It's also people who have lived in the area, WCBS 880's Peter Haskell reported
City health inspectors showed up at the All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village the Thursday before Mother's Day and said they found mosquito larvae.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan is continuing to speak out against the Obama administration's controversial birth control mandate a day after Catholic institutions around the country filed a lawsuit against the policy.
Recovering painkiller addict Michel Green told WCBS 880's Irene Cornell he was shocked when, after experiencing knee pain, a doctor offered him another addictive painkiller.
Michael DeStefan went to Hackensack University Medical Center thinking he had appendicitis after experiencing excruciating pain in his stomach. Doctors conducted tests and found a 1½-inch-long metallic object had pierced his large intestine.
The legal salvos have been fired by Catholic institutions across the country. Cardinal Dolan, the President of the U.S. Conference of Bishops, said the plan to force most employers to provide birth control coverage is just not acceptable.
"The sales for these medications continue to skyrocket, to a point at which the U.S. is now consuming more than 80 percent of the entire world's opioid supply," Dr. Andrew Kolodny told WCBS 880's Irene Cornell.
45,000 people walked up to 6.2 miles in the 27th annual AIDS Walk New York on Sunday to raise money for AIDS research. It's the largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser in the world, benefiting the Gay Men's Health Crisis and other HIV/AIDS charities.
