Category: hospitals

A frequent City Council critic has filed a lawsuit intended to nullify a recent tax settlement the city reached with Hackensack University Medical Center. Richard Salkin, city attorney from 1989 to 2005, claims in his suit that the settlement isn’t legal because Mayor John Labrosse, also a medical center employee, was present for confidential meetings and presentations about the agreement, creating a conflict of interest.

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A cyclist killed in a collision with a truck in Rose Bay has been identified as Henri Sueke, a father of four and children’s doctor who had recently moved from England to Australia with his young family. The 36-year-old was cycling along New South Head Road about 7.45am on Thursday when he was involved in a collision with a truck, and became trapped under a wheel of the vehicle.

They may live in the “City That Never Sleeps,” but most New Yorkers still sit around a lot — an average of seven hours every day, a new study shows. That estimate may be low, the study authors added, because the data was largely based on what people remembered or admitted to doing.

Police believe an air conditioner released carbon monoxide into a Hauppauge business Wednesday afternoon, sending 17 employees to the hospital. According to the Suffolk County Police Department, a female employee at Liqui-Mark on Davids Drive had complained of a headache and nausea.

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Michael King , who with his brother Roger, was behind the syndication of the mega-successful Oprah, Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray shows, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 66. King had been in intensive care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and was taken off life support after being admitted with pneumonia nearly three weeks ago, according to media reports.