Health

The influx of newly resettled people in upstate New York has forced several nonprofit health care clinics to either shut their doors to new refugees or close down altogether because of the financial burden of treating these patients.

The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) has created two special awards programs to recognize a total of ten influential organizations and/or leaders working to improve health in New York State.

In a study of nearly 500,000 individuals in 22 countries, researchers could not find any evidence that these programs had an impact on changing individual behavior.

A multi-year, national online research program on autism, believed to be the largest ever conducted in the United States, officially launched on April 21 with the goal of getting DNA from 50,000 individuals and their families, generating an enormous...