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New York’s first round-the-clock health clinic aims to capitalize on its many night owls, workaholics and insomniacs.

New York’s first round-the-clock health clinic aims to capitalize on its many night owls, workaholics and insomniacs.

In an effort to scare smokers into quitting New York City will begin distributing matchbooks carrying grisly images of decayed teeth and smoke-ravaged lungs.

Over the next four years, the city plans to invest $26 million toward an effort to expand primary health care facilities in 11 high-poverty areas.

Adults who were near the World Trade Center around the time it was attacked in 2001 have been twice as likely to develop asthma as the general population, a new study has found.

The virus that causes AIDS is spreading in New York City at three times the national rate ? an incidence of 72 new infections for every 100,000 people, compared with 23 per 100,000 nationally.

Reports that tax increases are the most effective measure known to reduce demand for tobacco are proving true in New York City.

Officials are planning an ambitious effort to give an H.I.V. test to every adult living in the Bronx.

Officials are planning an ambitious effort to give an H.I.V. test to every adult living in the Bronx.

The number of New York City residents 50 and older who have undergone a colonoscopy has risen by about 50 percent in five years, city officials announced on Thursday.