But city Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said the products themselves aren't similarly shielded by the Constitution.
Christopher Telano, chief internal auditor at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.
The city Health Department's chief lawyer, Thomas Merrill, said it would oppose such a move.
Calls to the New York City Health Department were referred to the New York City Law Department.
City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley, some of Quinn's fellow City Council members and health advocates were to join her.
City health officials, chastened by the experience of SARS, quickly quarantined the hotel and its nearly 300 guests and employees.
City health officials, he wrote, aren't assigned the "sweeping and unbridled authority to define, create, authorize, mandate and enforce" the health code.
Decaying bodies probably pose less of a threat than other issues, such as asbestos, said Dr. Paul Dungen, head of the Oklahoma City Health Department.
Dr. THOMAS FREEDEN (New York City Health Commissioner): The biggest barrier to people not getting HIV test is doctors not asking if they want one.
But New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Freeden defends universal testing.
So the city health department got out in front of the federal government a month and half ago and launched a campaign of the universal HIV test.
"We are asking these restaurant patrons to get this vaccination as a precautionary measure, " New York City Health Commissioner Dr Thomas Farley said in a statement on Friday.
The Jackson County medical examiner in western Missouri, for instance, was investigating three deaths that may be related to the heat, according to the Kansas City Health Department.
Tony Avella, who last month held a news conference for Petey and has called the city health commissioner to plead the pig's case so far to no avail.
The Jackson County medical examiner, in western Missouri, is investigating three deaths that may be related to the heat, according to information on the Kansas City Health Department's Twitter feed.
In the most recent case, the infant developed a fever seven days after circumcision and vesicular lesions the following day, according to a press release from the city health department.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), along with a growing number of state and city health departments, are reporting some of the highest numbers of affected individuals in recent history.
The regulation also doesn't cover alcoholic drinks or sales at supermarkets and many convenience stores among them 7-Eleven, home of the Big Gulp because they aren't subject to city health rules.
"While this may not be a silver bullet that will cure the obesity epidemic, it's rational ... (and) one step that can be taken, " said the city Health Department's chief lawyer, Thomas Merrill.
When city health officials voted to approve the large-drink ban in the fall, they routinely pointed to statistics showing that 58% adults citywide are overweight or obese, and nearly 40% of public-school students in eighth grade or below are obese or overweight.
"We had no idea as to whether this could turn from 94 cases originally calculated into 9, 400 cases, " says Pascal James Imperato, chairman of preventative medicine at the State University of New York-Downstate Medical School and a former New York City health commissioner.
New York (CNN) -- Two more infants have contracted the herpes virus after undergoing an ultra-Orthodox Jewish type of circumcision, which has been linked to the spread of the potentially deadly virus to newborn boys, according to the New York City Health Department.
In a discussion that went back to the original New York City charter granted to Thomas Dongan in 1686, however, the judge noted that the city health department had always operated under an authority to control infectious diseases, not chronic conditions like obesity.
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Hours after a judge struck down the 16-ounce size limit for sodas and some other sweet drinks as arbitrary and outside city health regulators' purview, Bloomberg defended it as a groundbreaking anti-obesity effort and all but challenged businesses to comply out of concern for their customers.
In a statement, Sheila Foley, chief executive of the East London and the City Mental Health Trust said there would be an independent inquiry following the "unusual case".
Boston Public Schools in Massachusetts had 10 closings in the spring, which came about through collaborative decisions between the city public health commission and the superintendent, said Matt Wilder, spokesman for the schools.
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That includes five deaths -- of men ages 48, 58 and 59 and two women ages 81 and 91 -- because of "heat stress" in Chicago, city public health spokesman Efrat Stein said Friday.
That man -- Mitchell Wiener -- had an underlying health condition, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, New York City's health commissioner and President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CDC.
According to an investigation by the CDC and New York city and state health officials, a kidney transplant recipient contracted the virus from a donor in an unnamed New York City hospital in 2009.
The New York City Department of Health will submit the measure to the Board of Health on June 12.
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