Health Care

Facing the cytokine storm — David Fajgenbaum brings his first-hand experience with cytokine storms to bear on this new coronavirus.

Over the last two days, health care workers have demanded that the federal government provide the emergency supplies they need on COVID-19 front lines.

We look at how the coronavirus disproportionately affects people living in poverty and talk about gun violence in Philadelphia during the outbreak.

The Keystone State gets a positive prognosis, while New Jersey’s death toll worsens, in the latest projections.

With the pandemic, more are interested in home births, some ask for induced labor, and some are coming from New York to see about having babies here.

Councilmember Helen Gym thinks it’s still worth exploring eminent domain.

At best, people are stuck inside. At worst, they’re working in incredibly stressful conditions, or isolated from friends and family. This is not an easy time.

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania may put a field hospital on a public street, the first commandeering of open land for medical use since 1918.

People are trying to follow social distancing guidelines, so health systems are trying out bringing cancer treatments to their patients’ homes.

Wearing a mask is "an additional layer of protection for those who have to go out," former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told NPR in an interview.

As hospitals consider how to free up bed space, Delaware officials say their first priority is recruiting enough nurses and doctors to help.

Three major health insurance providers have now pledged to shield patients from high medical bills if they need treatment for COVID-19.

In an effort to boost the number of health care professionals on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak, Pennsylvania is chipping away at the bureaucratic barriers.

The test’s creators at Connecticut-based medical technology incubator 4Catalyzer hope to start producing the kits within weeks, pending FDA approval.

As the COVID-19 pandemic ramps up, Philly area hospitals begin accepting daily donations of food for staff.