By TERRY LYNAM // Whether it’s a physician network or an insurance provider or a pharmaceutical manufacturer, the key to success in the ultra-competitive healthcare environment is to get bigger…
By TOM MARINER // The world’s largest healthcare-solutions provider sure didn’t start that way. But what began in 1932 as a neighborhood pharmacy in Queens has certainly evolved into a…
By GREGORY ZELLER // A unique joint-admissions partnership between a leading State University of New York medical school and a top regional university will significantly expand Long Island’s nursing-education capacity….
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // Everyone is talking about affordability. Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Kathy Hochul – even President Donald Trump, who recently launched his…
By TERRY LYNAM // The long-simmering debate over the future of federal health spending – including Obamacare subsidies – has been largely overshadowed by the Trump Administration’s pursuit of Greenland…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Wearable health devices are having a profoundly positive effect, according to the latest Mount Sinai South Nassau Truth in Medicine Poll – at least, among those who wear…
One flu over, cuckoo: It’s Friday, dear readers, and we are absolutely thrilled to be coming at you with this regularly scheduled week-in-review edition of your favorite innovation newsletter….
By TERRY LYNAM // The nation’s public-health professionals are in full-blown panic over the dumpster fire that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ignited within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, approved last week by a sleep-deprived U.S. Congress, slashes healthcare spending and potentially impacts Medicaid coverage for millions of…
Hot (off the presses): Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we sweat out the first full workweek of July – and we do mean sweat. It certainly has been…
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Long Island is on the front lines of the battle between the federal government and New York State over Trump 2.0’s aggressive pursuit of government…
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s official: Nuvance Health is now part of Northwell Health. The merger of the two health systems – first announced in February 2024, greenlit last August…
By TERRY LYNAM // I’ve known Michael Dowling since 1988, when I was working in the press office of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who tapped Dowling to become…
Holy slowdown! Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and not just any Wednesday but the Wednesday before Easter Sunday – a.k.a. Holy Wednesday (when Judas conspired with the chief priests…
By GREGORY ZELLER // The ultimate ultrasound competition returned to Long Island Feb. 22, with dozens of future physicians gathering at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at…