Medical News

While the State Legislature is working on a potential medical marijuana bill, Governor Cuomo has made an agreement with GW Pharmaceuticals to begin trials of cannabidiol, a chemical in marijuana that is being tried on children with epilepsy.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to add New York to the 20 states allowing medical marijuana use. Cuomo would use administrative powers rather than legislative action to allow a limited number of hospitals to use marijuana to treat certain ailments...

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer’s legislation to permanently extend two Medicare payment programs that are critical to rural hospitals in Upstate New York has cleared a key hurdle with its passage in the Senate Finance Committee.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer warns that ambulance crews are threatened with the loss of critical funding.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A report from the state Health Department says the number of infections acquired by patients while in New York hospitals continues to decline. The sixth-annual report on hospital-acquired infections found that since 2007 the rate of central-line associated blood stream infections has fallen 53 percent and rates of surgical site infections fell by 16 percent...