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A Maryland judge says a forensic psychiatrist for the state health department believes the man accused of killing five staffers at the Capital Gazette is legally sane.

New York became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes Tuesday, a move that comes as federal health officials investigate a mysterious surge of severe breathing illnesses linked to vaping.

Two pregnant women have been diagnosed with measles as the city’s case total amid the worst outbreak in decades rises to 390, a more than 18 percent increase since last week, authorities said Wednesday.

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A New Jersey medical center where 11 children have died in a viral outbreak has separated its infected patients from those who are medically fragile, state health officials said Saturday.

Two New York City children died from the flu in what health officials said Monday were the first confirmed pediatric fatalities linked to the virus this season in the five boroughs.

The number of confirmed mumps cases at the State University of New York at New Paltz has risen to 63 amid what has become the worst outbreak of the highly contagious illness in New York state since 2010, college officials say.

The number of confirmed mumps cases at the State University of New York at New Paltz has risen to 63 amid what has become the worst outbreak of the highly contagious illness in New York state since 2010, college officials say.

The Manhattan clinic where Joan Rivers went into hypoxic arrest during a medical procedure over the summer violated a number of federal Medicare regulations, including failing to intervene fast enough when her oxygen supply was cut off, a federal report has found.

Joan Rivers’ family has hired a prominent New York City personal injury and medical malpractice law firm to investigate the comic legend’s death last month, the firm said Tuesday.

Joan Rivers died of complications from low blood oxygen during a routine medical procedure to assess voice changes and reflux she underwent at a Manhattan clinic over the summer, the medical examiner’s office said Thursday. Rob Schmitt reports.

Mayor de Blasio’s three-story townhouse in Park Slope has been rented — by the first people who went to look at it when it went on the market earlier this month, NBC 4 New York has learned.

Joan Rivers died of complications from low blood oxygen during a routine medical procedure to assess voice changes and reflux she underwent at a Manhattan clinic over the summer, the medical examiner’s office said Thursday.