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It’s teaming up with Pennsylvania and Ohio counterparts to improve patient safety and hospital practices

I ask all the families of my young patients if they are working, staying at home, or in school.

Join us on an audio walking tour through Philadelphia's Old City to discover how the yellow fever epidemic challenged the city’s health and political infrastructure.

Often we think of life and death as opposite sides of a coin — categories as final as they are discrete. But in an age when machines ca ...

Applied behavior analysts are licensed in 30 states. Pennsylvania isn't one of them.

Calling the issue a matter of public health, the group is proposing four bills that would require public restrooms to provide free pads and tampons to anyone who needs them.

Some state and city governments have begun to implement more stringent regulations when it comes to the sale of vape devices and liquids. But is it an overreaction?

Research yet again shows teens are glued to their phones to an unhealthy degree. In fact, they may be choosing social media over sleep.

Care for adults with sickle cell disease has lagged behind pediatric care. Some adults may not be well enough to receive cures when they come.

Patients with sickle-cell disease are living longer and a cure could be around the corner. Why doctors in Philadelphia worry those adult patients might be left behind.

The research challenges electronic cigarette industry claims about health risks the devices pose.

Federal regulators released a report that revealed just how close the city came to catastrophe after the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery explosion in June.

Black applicants to a prestigious research grant program at the National Institutes of Health are awarded funding at a significantly lower rate than their white peers.

Years after Mary Lee appeared, and following the brief blip of Miss May in July, there’s a new great white shark to track. His name is Shaw.

Walgreens is testing out delivery from store to door by drone in Virginia, and UPS won approval to expand air delivery of medical supplies.