Health

Since brand-name Truvada was approved for HIV prevention six years ago, its average wholesale price has increased by about 45 percent.

Sharing personal narratives can help the storytellers see some of the good in their lives amid the trauma.

After Pfizer cut back on production, Philly's Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is getting 30 percent less injectable morphine, fentanyl, and Dilaudid than it did a year ago.

Fentanyl, many times stronger than heroin, was responsible for a surge of drug overdose deaths in Philadelphia last year.

In Philadelphia, not having a safe, stable place to live prevents parents whose children have been placed in foster care from regaining custody 40 percent of the time.

Since the state established a lead abatement program in 2004, more than $50 million has been diverted from its fund toward other uses.

The FDA is increasingly green-lighting expensive drugs despite dangerous or little-known side effects and inconclusive evidence that they curb or cure disease

As Mona Hanna-Attisha began reviewing her patients' medical records, she noticed the percentage of children with elevated lead levels had increased after the water switch.

There's a shortage of primary care providers. University of Pennsylvania is testing a model, using Medicare funds, to train more nurse practitioners.

"They are asking a lot of questions," she says. "They are investigating one's life from head to toe."

Those who overdosed were at a much higher risk of death the following year from drug use-associated diseases, HIV, chronic respiratory diseases, viral hepatitis, and suicide.

Officials say supplies have fallen below the three-day inventory.

The first known case of the Keystone virus has been identified in a 16-year-old boy after a year of tests and analysis.

Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make us pack on the pounds — we sit at desks all day, grab fast food on the run, and ...

A small group of insurers offers some members with serious illnesses medically tailored meals to improve their health.