New York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) has added a section to its web site where residents can see how city hospitals stack up against each other and against state and national benchmarks. HHC operates 11 hospitals and four long-term care facilities in the city. The Associated Press reports that information available to healthcare consumers at the HHC site includes data like mortality rates, adherence to "best practices" treatments, rates of pneumonia and infections......

After the NY Times reported the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene wanted to encourage adult men at risk for HIV/AIDS to get circumcised, Mayor Bloomberg distanced himself a bit from such a program. According to today's NY Times, Bloomberg officials "cautioned that [a campaign to promote circumcision] was still in its infancy and not yet something the administration had decided to pursue."Asked about the approach at a news conference, Mr. Bloomberg expressed support for......

Just in time for Halloween, The City has apparently climbed aboard the paranormal bandwagon led by TV shows like Lost and Supernatural. In a new smoking cessation campaign aimed at raising awareness of the dangers of smoking, posters such as the one above (click image to enlarge), showing family portraits where one relative is fading into the background, will be plastered on subway billboards in Chinatown and Chinese print media. The tagline will read: "Don't......