Health Care

Prisoners Being Released From City, State Prisons Are Not Being Tested for COVID-19

We discuss what makes the novel coronavirus such an effective and dangerous pathogen in the human body and the race to develop a vaccine against it.

Canceled elective procedures mean many facilities are no longer getting short-term residents paid for by Medicare. Medicaid pays less for long-term care.

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb estimated at least 750,000 rapid point-of-care tests are needed weekly to guide the country out of the pandemic.

What if you don't have COVID-19 symptoms, but you do have an earache or a child with a rash? These days, many more people are getting diagnosed via calls or video chats.

The campaign shouts out everyone from doctors to utility workers.

The Pennsylvania Medical Society is asking Governor Tom Wolf to grant temporary immunity from malpractice claims to healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

The health system, which employs 8,000 workers, instructed leadership to choose which positions to temporarily cut.

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.