Health Chief: If Bird Flu Comes, Cover Your Mouth

As apocalyptic horror fantasies go, the threat of an avian-flu pandemic remains blessedly hypothetical. Before it can wreak Hitchcockian havoc on a city like New York, it must jump through a tangle of if/then hoops, including (but hardly limited to) morphing into a virus that can hop from human to human and making landfall in Read More

Come Back, Baby Docs! Big City-Hospital Plans Stop Pediatric Exodus

In an elegantly appointed apartment on East End Avenue, Dr. Spencer (Spike) Foreman, the dapper president of the Montefiore Medical Center, stood to make a sales pitch to a rapt and well-dressed audience. The new Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, he explained, would be doing God’s work in providing high-quality medical care for ailing children in Read More