Alan Yu

A new study shows the soda tax made a small difference in slowing down weight gain, which researchers argue is still important.

Hurricane Helene shut down a factory in North Carolina that makes more than half of the U.S. supply of intravenous fluids. Hospitals use them everyday.

The negotiations took more than a year and included a large public rally and a recent incident where hospital security drove residents off a sidewalk.

The gene therapy comes seven years after another research group at the university helped come up with the first FDA approved gene therapy for an inherited disease.

Some parents say their children are not supported enough. The School District of Philadelphia says they need more staff and resources.

Local researchers say it’s unclear what the health impact is, but public transit is still preferable to driving.

After almost a year of negotiations, the big sticking point now is over wages. Residents say they make a little above minimum wage after accounting for long hours.

Workers in Philly's Old City hit upon a historic cemetery with hundreds of people. It took years to study, identify and rebury them.

Longtime Mütter Museum forensic anthropologist Anna Dhody will continue her work analyzing historic samples, but now in a research institute of her own.

Air conditioning is a century-old technology, but now companies are racing to reinvent it and lower its large environmental footprint.

Hospitals routinely use these bottles to check for infections in patients’ blood — now they are cutting back on tests.

The invasive insect appeared in Pennsylvania 10 years ago and continues to spread west, as far away as Illinois.