Health & Science

The CDC concluded that by 2021, the "rate of drug overdose deaths involving xylazine was 35 times higher than the 2018 rate."

Penn Medicine is also weighing the possibility of re-establishing emergency care at Brandywine Hospital “beyond the partnership with the VA.”

Tower Health and Penn Medicine signed a letter of intent that would allow Penn to acquire Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville.

According to data the state shares with the federal government, nearly 20% of Pennsylvanians who had to renew their Medical Assistance coverage have lost it.

A new microreactor being developed at the Idaho National Laboratory will be small enough to put on a tractor trailer and nimble enough to send to a disaster site.

Answer to decades-long mystery uncovered in the archive at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.

While the U.S. struggles to build long-term storage for nuclear waste, other countries like Sweden, Finland, and Canada move forward with plans for geologic repositories.

Pennsylvania law only allows physicians to perform abortions. Advanced practice clinicians say they want to be able to do the same.

Fishing grounds are being closed, but new technology could help avoid that.

The Commonwealth Fund’s 2023 state scorecard also graded New Jersey and Delaware as having a “better-than-average” health system performance.

Mobile crisis program supporters say additional funding will help to better staff professional teams and improve response times.

We unfold the never-before-told story of Earle and the classified operation that he was a part of, and explore the remnants of the atomic age and the waste it has left behind.

This injectable form of penicillin is a critical treatment for infections like syphilis, and could be in short supply for the rest of the year.

States were prohibited from removing people from Medicaid during the pandemic. But that ban was lifted in April.

The legislation would direct DNREC to evaluate the potential benefits and roadblocks of offshore wind.