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Governor Cuomo and State Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker are re-issuing a warning to New Yorkers to continue to refrain from using vaping products.

New York state is now allowing anyone prescribed an opioid to request medical marijuana instead.

The New York State Department of Health has put out a report on the deer tick problem and what percentage of ticks carry the Lyme Disease bacteria.

The number of high school students in New York who smoke continues to go down.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's Health Department says it has identified 324 cases of Zika, all associated with travel to areas where mosquitoes are known to transmit it.

The New York State Department of Health is expanding its Zika virus testing program.

Some occupants of the former IBM site at the Heron Campus in Endicott are possibly planning to move out over contamination concerns.
i3 has informed about 400 employees that the company had plans to move over concerns of exposure to trichloroethylene contamination left behind at the site by IBM...

The New York State Department of Health has selected five organizations to manufacture and dispense medical marijuana in New York and Brightwaters Farms in Utica is not one of them.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah has declared the flu now prevalent in the state, requiring hospitals and other state-regulated health facilities to ensure their personnel have either had this season's influenza vaccine or else wear masks where patient…