Were you in Long Island on Christmas? Did you, by any chance, take communion at either the 10:30 a.m. or noon Masses at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Massapequa Park? Health officials are warning that you might have gotten an extra Christmas gift with that wafer: hepatitis A. For privacy reasons details are being kept nun mum, a rep only saying that "an individual tested positive for hepatitis A who is involved in the Communion process," but if you are worried, the church is offering free hep A vaccines today from 3—8 p.m. and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.. more ›

This past week things got stirred up at celebrity hotspot Socialista with a bit of a a Hepatitis A scare. Amongst the hundreds urged to get vaccinated were celebrities who attended actor Ashton Kutcher’s 30th birthday party at the bar; those on the Hepatitis A-list included Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. more ›

It used to be one only had to worry about "the morning after" if they took another bar patron home with them, but the NYC Health Department is asking at least 800 imbibers of a West Village bar to get a hepatitis A vaccination! more ›