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MSG Networks and its lenders have gotten a weeklong extension to negotiate on more than $800 million in debt that has been due since October. The sports broadcaster, loan agent JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the lenders now have until April 2 to find a fix for the debt, extending a previous March 26 deadline, […]

Former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill has donated $50 million to launch a cancer research hub focusing on how diet and metabolism affect patients’ reactions to cancer treatments, he announced Thursday. The Weill Cancer Hub East – a partnership between Weill Cornell Medicine, Princeton University, Rockefeller University and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research – will

Change seems to come naturally to some areas. Gentrifying post-industrial swaths of Brooklyn and Queens, perhaps, are used to blocks that morph in quick time. But differences may be harder to swallow in more established neighborhoods, such as the Upper West Side, where the enclave along Broadway once known as Bloomingdale is about to lose

Eleven practices are urging a judge in a Manhattan federal court to prohibit an insurance middleman from changing how they get paid for Medicare and Medicaid patients. DentaQuest, a third-party insurance provider based in Massachusetts, threatened to switch the practices’ payment model by April 1, a move the practices say could shutter some of them

SLEEP APNEA: The City Council passed legislation on Wednesday to establish a pilot program offering free sleep apnea screenings. The bill, sponsored by Upper West Side Democrat Shaun Abreu, would prioritize screenings for people without insurance. The pilot would last for three years and would offer home sleep apnea tests in addition to the screenings.

Health and Human Services is cutting at least $73 million in funding from Columbia University in an effort that the Trump administration claims is aimed at ending health research focused on equity, part of a slate of cancelled grants to dozens of academic institutions. Roughly 150 grants to the university are on the chopping block,

A long-shot push to get New York to adopt a single-payer health care system persists despite a federal landscape far less amenable to government health spending than at any point in the proposal’s yearslong history. The New York Health Act would establish government-backed health coverage for every resident in the state, an idea popular among

Johnson & Johnson has pulled ahead of rival AstraZeneca Plc in a race to dominate the blockbuster market for lung cancer treatment, but data from a forthcoming study could quickly shake up the competition again. J&J’s combination therapy helped patients live significantly longer than those who received Astra’s Tagrisso, according to detailed data from a

Discord, a social communications platform popular with video-game players and programmers, is working with Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co. on an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The company could seek a stock market listing as soon as this year, said the people, who asked not to be

The former head of the money-management powerhouse known today as AllianceBernstein has unloaded his Central Park co-op. Dave Williams, who for two decades chaired Alliance Capital Management Corp., sold the 5,200-square-foot prewar duplex on Fifth Avenue on March 24 for $14.8 million, according to a transfer tax record that appeared in the city register Wednesday.