Health and Science

It would be the largest unionization of workers through a single election in U.S. history.

The hospital system will pay $8.5 million, similar to the “monetary penalty” paid by Mount Sinai earlier this month.

Most of those hospitalized have neuroinvasive disease, because the sickest people tend to seek out care, health officials say.

A separate outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side killed 11 people this summer.

Joining the city hospital system would provide the struggling Borough Park hospital with a $2.2 billion lifeline.

Improving water quality has more swimmers looking to take the plunge.

Health officials will take questions from community members Tuesday evening.

More than 500 admissions were recorded in the five boroughs in the week ending Sept. 5.

Lincoln Hospital is also among the 10 South Bronx locations ordered to disinfect cooling towers.

One of the buildings houses a federal Social Security office. It had not reported test results since late June, according to city data.