Nicole Leonard

Philly takes first steps in distributing national opioid settlement funds with $1.9 million in grants for community and grassroots organizations.

Dr. John Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine and used it to perform the world’s first successful open-heart surgery on May 6, 1953.

Medical illustration is a small field — there are about 2,000 certified professionals in the world, including a small team in Philly at CHOP.

Residents in Philadelphia’s Frankford neighborhood say the area has become a primary care desert, and lacks options for healthy foods.

Several City Council members want to preemptively ban such sites in residential neighborhoods in certain parts of the city.

About 900 unionized registered nurses at Einstein Medical Center in North Philadelphia are in contract negotiations with parent company, Jefferson Health.

Strep throat is fairly common among school-aged kids, but cases dropped during the pandemic. Now, infections are soaring.

CHANCES was an outpatient substance use treatment program in Philly. It initially opened in the early '90s to serve women and mothers.

Supervised injection or safe consumption sites are places people could go to use illegal drugs while being monitored by medical experts.

Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, has been appearing in an increasing number of street drug samples and opioid overdose deaths in Philadelphia and across the U.S.

Medication abortions account for 53% of all facility-based terminations in the U.S. Recent court rulings have created uncertainty around future access to a key abortion drug.

Nearly 50 years ago, Garrett Brown invented the Steadicam for motion picture filming. Today, he’s using his skills to give people more mobility options.