Paterson expects New York will receive nearly $300 million of the $5 billion available in the federal health-care reform legislation over the next three years.

SYRACUSE - The State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees announced Tuesday that Upstate Medical University is considering acquiring Community General Hospital. And the SUNY Board says it supports the move if current analysis shows it would benefit the institution.

The program is aimed at providing training for health-care professionals on how to serve as liaisons between law and medical science, the school said in a news release.

The funding will help launch "HealtheConnections," Central New York's regional health-information organization (RHIO), which is a policy-making body for the electronic information exchange.

The contract, with the department's Defense Supply Center in Philadelphia, is worth a maximum of more than $43.6 million and is good for one year.

ONEONTA - Medical Coaches, Inc. stopped selling its mobile medical equipment to the Middle East market in 1973 when the region cut off oil exports to nations, including the United States, which supported Israel in its conflict with Syria and Egypt.&l

Here are two fears the federal health-care reform legislation raises: If you are a certain person in certain situations, big government will make decisions about your health care - instead of you. Secondly, government, not you, will decide what care