Richard Branson’s California-based rocket company Virgin Orbit partnered with medical researchers and developed a ventilator device that the company plans to mass produce and send to hospitals around the United States to fight coronavirus. ″[It is] a very, very simple and robust design that we can get out to the people who are in the most need, and the hospitals that...

Health care workers are dreading the prospect of having to decide who to treat first as U.S. hospitals brace for a surge in coronavirus patients who need ventilators and other resources that could soon be in critically short supply

With capacity stretched thin, U.S. hospitals are rushing to find beds for a coming flood of patients, opening older closed hospitals, turning single rooms into doubles and re-purposing other medical buildings. At the same time, medical professionals in New York City are warning of the risks they are facing on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic in the United...

People are banding together to sew face masks for hospitals running desperately short of personal protective equipment as the coronavirus pandemic intensifies

Sarah Wallace reports.

One of the nation’s biggest health insures is waiving patient payments for hospital stays tied to the coronavirus

New York is scouring the globe for desperately needed medical supplies and scouting field hospital locations in New York City and its suburbs as confirmed coronavirus cases soared above 10,000 statewide, Cuomo said Saturday. The goal is to quickly boost the state’s hospital capacity from around 50,000 beds to 75,000 beds, Cuomo said at a news briefing. The state has…

New York City health officials are taking a new approach to testing for COVID-19. Myles Miller reports.

More than 45,000 people have been tested, Gov. Cuomo says.

Marc Santia reports.

Supreme Court will decide fate of Obama-era health care law, probably not until after 2020 election

Nearly one third of American voters fear they won’t be able to pay for health care in the coming year, according to an NBC News/Commonwealth Fund survey released Thursday.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the workplace violence injury rate for private hospital employees is five times the national rate in Connecticut, nearly seven times in New Jersey and eight times in New York. A survey also revealed that nearly half of all ER doctors had been assaulted, nearly all of which were by a patient. NBC New...

The Trump administration on Friday threatened California with a potential loss of federal health care funds over the state’s requirement that insurance plans cover abortions.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to get his campaign back to the issue of Brexit after being accused of a lack of empathy for looking away from an image of child sleeping on a hospital room floor while awaiting treatment. The story of 4-year-old Jack has overshadowed campaigning for Thursday’s general election as Johnson and his Conservatives pushed...

The next time you get sick, your care may involve a form of the technology people use to navigate road trips or pick the right vacuum cleaner online. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. It...

State health officials say nearly all New Yorkers won’t see health care premium increases through the marketplace set up by former President Obama’s signature health law.

Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi announced Friday that it is voluntarily recalling heartburn drug Zantac amid ongoing investigations into a carcinogen found in the medication in September. Many pharmacies in the U.S. had already pulled Zantac and its generic equivalents from their shelves, and at least two makers of the drug’s generic version had already halted production.

Watch comedian Jon Stewart’s full statement at a congressional hearing on the 9/11 victims fund Tuesday, June 11.