Gov. Kathy Hochul has vetoed the 'Local Input for Community Healthcare Act,' better known to Brooklynites as the LICH Act, named in honor of Cobble Hill's now-shuttered Long Island College Hospital. The veto — the second by Hochul — dismayed Brooklyn Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, who has been working to pass the legislation for a decade. Simon, who represents the area once served by LICH — including Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Downtown and Brooklyn Heights — first introduced the bill with former state Sen. Daniel Squadron in 2015. Senate co-sponsor in 2024 and 2025 was state Sen. Gustavo Rivera of the Bronx, chair of the Senate Health Committee. The bill is meant to ensure that what happened to LICH won't play out at other hospitals across New York.
In a new study, researchers from multiple institutions present a comprehensive framework to untangle this complex web. They categorize agentic frameworks based on their area of focus and tradeoffs, providing a practical guide for developers to choose the right tools and strategies for their applications.
Maimonides Health is merging with NYC Health + Hospitals and joining the city's health care system, New York City and the Brooklyn-based provider announced. Maimonides Health CEO Ken Gibbs said Monday the merger is still pending final legal and regulatory approval. It's supported by a $2.2 billion state grant protecting Brooklyn's health care safety net. By partnering up with the city, Maimonides' three hospitals and 80 community-based sites can be reimbursed at a higher rate by Medicaid, the announcement said. Maimonides patients will also be able to access their health records with Epic, an online portal designed to improve coordination with their doctors, officials said.
The Trump administration on Monday announced the first awards to states from the $50 billion rural health fund in this summer's Republican megabill — including a big award for Alaska, whose lawmakers' support was critical to the bill's passage.
The therapies must be provided at authorized treatment centers — specialized and highly regulated facilities that are specifically chosen and trained by the drugmakers to ensure they can administer the treatments safely. People living in metropolitan areas, like Boston and Los Angeles, might have multiple treatment centers to choose from; but in rural areas, access to the facilities is sparse.
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – roughly twice the width of a human hair – these machines can perceive their surroundings, "think," and act independently without external instructions. According to their developers, such technology could one day monitor the health of individual cells in our bodies or deliver medication to specific locations to treat diseases.