Health

The WHO notified lawmakers that it will discontinue two publications on prescribing opioids in response to allegations that the pharmaceutical industry influenced the reports.

New Jersey officials distributed 20,000 free naloxone packs to pharmacies, and said Tuesday’s event was a pilot program that could be expanded in the future.

US Steel has put its pollution controls back online at its Clairton Coke Works and avoided a potential shutdown order, the Allegheny County Health Department said Tuesday.

Twenty years ago, an 18-year-old's death while undergoing a Penn clinical trial changed gene therapy.

A study from researchers at Cooper University Hospital shows an uptick in infections due to Vibrio vulnificus in the Delaware Bay.

The second fire at US Steel's Clairton plant in six months could send SO2 levels up again.

With female incarceration rates rising in the United States, prisons and jails across the country are contending with new challenges, including caring for pregnant women.

The Philadelphia Midwife Collective has launched a GoFundMe campaign to open a birth center they hope will make inclusive care more accessible.

Deaths connected to suicide, drugs, and alcohol are soaring among millennials nationwide, and hitting Pennsylvania especially hard.

The battle to contain the worst U.S. measles outbreak in 27 years has a new front: summer camp.

House Bill 629 passed the house and currently sits in the Senate Insurance and Banking Committee, where past versions of this bill have all stalled. 

About 30 million Americans have this allergy noted in their medical records. That means the most commonly prescribed antibiotics are off-limits.

The Farris Institute was once Philadelphia's premiere clinic for artificial insemination. But it left an unknown number of children wondering who their fathers really were.

Pennsylvania Senate may tighten rules on doctors using buprenorphine.

Wilmington resident Judy Govatos has survived cancer twice. If it returns, she wants to be able to choose how to die and is pushing for a controversial bill in Delaware.