In a guest column, New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah talks frankly about how consumers can -- and cannot -- get reliable data about the quality and safety of hospital healthcare services.

An unusually warm winter resulted in an early and prolonged allergy season this year. Woodhull Hospital pediatrician and pulmonologist Dr. Luis Rodriguez discusses allergies and how to manage them in children and adults.

Gouverneur Health midwife Dewan Duan cares for new immigrant women in Lower Manhattan while helping the United Nations create a curriculum to establish midwifery programs at universities in China.