South Brooklyn Health has surfaced a roughly $5.7M plan to upgrade its cardiac lab at the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital campus, aiming to expand local heart procedures. The request appears in city planning documents and would add interventional capacity at the Coney Island site.

USDA-linked reporting shows nine new live-bird market detections of HPAI H5 — eight of them in New York City. Officials say shoppers’ risk is low but market biosecurity must be tightened.

North Shore University Hospital has begun using Abbott’s rapid TBI blood test to speed concussion evaluations and reduce unnecessary CT scans. The device returns results in minutes.

Yeshiva University announced a three‑year dental school in Midtown Manhattan with specialty clinics and an accelerated DDS curriculum as the city faces dentist shortages.

Costco has teamed with Sesame and IVI RMA to give members coordinated fertility care and steep discounts on medications — some drugs may be up to 80% cheaper.

Junebar recalled two Junebar flavors sold in New York after undeclared milk and soy were found in certain batches; check batch codes L1300/L1301 and return affected bars.

Consumer Reports testing found arsenic, lead and PFAS in dozens of baby formulas; regulators and lawmakers face pressure to act.

The city is directing $20M through the Strong Foundations initiative to expand Nurse‑Family Partnership visits, boost perinatal mental‑health clinics and train clinicians.

NYC Health + Hospitals expanded its oncology and infusion center at South Brooklyn Health in Coney Island, adding bays, exam rooms and services hospital leaders say could double capacity.

An $18M EHS Cancer Center opened at the Walsh Ambulatory Pavilion, restoring radiation therapy and adding PET/CT and infusion services to Far Rockaway.

The New York Blood Center opened the Bronx’s first permanent donor site in Throggs Neck. Officials say it will make donating easier as local supplies dip.

A new Value in Health analysis co‑authored by Memorial Sloan Kettering and Turquoise Health finds fuller hospital price disclosure is linked to meaningful declines in commercial oncology prices, with the biggest drops where disclosure is broad and complete.

Parents say Mount Sinai paused pediatric gender-affirming treatment and referred families to private clinics as federal rules loom.