Health & Science

Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital notified the county as well as Clifton Heights, Folcroft, and Lansdowne of potential cuts to their emergency medical services.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued an alert Monday warning of a "sharp increase in the trafficking of fentanyl mixed with xylazine."

Cases of the fungus that did not respond to antifungal medicine tripled in 2021. It can be deadly, but does not seem to have adverse effects on healthy people.

The Philly Joy Bank is modeled after similar programs in Canada and San Francisco that offer guaranteed cash income to pregnant residents.

With a pandemic-era rule expiring this month, people on Medicaid will have to re-qualify to keep their coverage.

The report has a number of regulatory recommendations, which could help give PGW, the city, and ratepayers a more accurate accounting of the gas main replacement program.

If you think you're too young to get colorectal cancer, consider this: About 20,000 people in the U.S. under the age of 50 will be diagnosed this year.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said we must cut carbon pollution by two-thirds in the next dozen years.

Operated by Temple Dental School, the practice aims to increase access to quality care in an area of Philly that has long needed it.

Djokovic is a foreign citizen who is not vaccinated against COVID-19. Government rules still prevent him from entering the country.

If you’re training to become a physician, your first patient is usually dead. In fact, “first patient” is what med students call th ...

9/11 rescue worker wants the world to see the toll the work took on her body.

For more than a decade, a unique gross anatomy course at Indiana University required students to get to know the family of the donated cadaver they worked on.

Hepatitis C kills more than 400 people in Pennsylvania every year, despite it being a curable infectious disease.

A half-century-old bit of American bureaucracy is leaving hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents in an unthinkable bind: Living on as little as $30 a month.