Montefiore Medical Center

If there is a such thing as an ordinary heart transplant, this was not it. It marked the first time an HIV positive patient received a heart from an HIV positive donor.

Westchester mom and grandmother becomes the first HIV-positive patient in the world to receive a heart transplant from an HIV positive donor. Rana Novini reports.

The world’s first HIV-positive to HIV-positive heart transplant was performed in the Bronx. Montefiore Health System said that the transplant was a success and involved a patient in her sixties who suffered from advanced heart failure. Not only did the patient receive the heart transplant, but she simultaneously received a kidney transplant in early spring, according to the hospital....

The mother of toddler siblings who died minutes apart after being put to bed in their Bronx home in 2017 has been indicted on manslaughter and assault charges.

The mother of toddler siblings who died minutes apart after being put to bed in their Bronx home in 2017 has been arrested in New Jersey and charged with two counts of manslaughter.

Author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison died last night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88.

A lawsuit is claiming the NYPD forced a woman to give birth while shackled in handcuffs.

The alleged nose-picking masturbator who terrorized subway riders in two separate attacks has been caught after months on the lam, police say.  Dennis Patrick, 59, is believed to be the man seen in a photo from one of the cases apparently picking his nose on a train. He has been charged with public lewdness in the attacks — one on...

A yearlong study offers rigorous new evidence against using prescription opioids for chronic pain. In patients with stubborn back aches or hip or knee arthritis, opioids worked no better than over-the-counter drugs or other nonopioids at reducing problems with walking or sleeping. And they provided slightly less pain relief, Opioids tested included generic Vicodin, oxycodone or fentanyl patches although few...

Two teenage boys have been charged with assault after they allegedly slashed a New York City store owner before cutting off a cabbie’s thumb while trying to flee.

Emergency rooms are where many patients are first introduced to powerful opioid painkillers, but what if doctors offered over-the-counter pills instead? A new study tested that approach on patients with broken bones and sprains and found pain relievers sold as Tylenol and Motrin worked as well as opioids at reducing severe pain. The results challenge common ER practice for treating...

Anyone with information about him is asked to call Crime Stoppers.

Police are looking for a man seen masturbating twice on subways in the city in the last month.

A woman was punched and raped in a secluded area of the Bronx in broad daylight, police say.

In a classroom, an old man glides in pushing a walker, and none of the young faces turn. In the cafeteria, a white-haired woman eats across from a teenager, to no one’s surprise. And walking to the school bus, students pass wheelchairs and oxygen tanks as nonchalantly as if they were backpacks and notebooks.

A car crashed into a children’s party center in the Bronx, seriously injuring three people Sunday, authorities said.

A defenseless man was beaten repeatedly after refusing to hand over money to two men who targeted him on a Bronx sidewalk, police say.

A medical escort was killed when the ambulette she used to transport disabled people rolled on top of her after she fell out of it while it was in reverse, police said.

The toddler siblings who died minutes apart after being put to bed in their Bronx home earlier this week bled to death from internal injuries following an apparent beating, an NYPD official said Thursday, and while the medical examiner has ruled both deaths homicides, no arrests have been made.