Health Care

STC Opco — a partnership between Reading-based Tower Health and Drexel University — bought the North Philadelphia facility for $50 million.

Sale of the North Philadelphia hospital is part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding involving Philadelphia Academic Health, which also owns Hahnemann.

Coloring is a complex chemical reaction, a sophisticated organic synthesis, that takes place in each strand on the top of your head.

Type 1 diabetes can be well managed with insulin if blood sugar is consistently monitored. But insurance rules can make it hard for patients to get medical supplies.

Moderate candidates tried to sway Philadelphia workers away from public health care, arguing it would strip them of their hard earned benefits.

A federal judge has temporarily stopped the sale of more than 550 slots for doctors in training, cutting off a potential infusion of funds to the troubled hospital.

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing to launch a new three-digit hotline for people who are feeling suicidal or are going through any other mental health crisis.

Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed two different bills. Pennsylvania lawmakers plan to send him a third.

A Nemours-Christiana Care partnership creates rooms big enough to fit 2 teams of doctors, so that newborns with congenital issues stay close to their moms.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which funds the residencies, opposed the sale of the 550-plus slots from the beginning.

At a free event set up by the Mexican consulate in Philadelphia, checking for the damaging effects of exposure to the sun got the spotlight.

This week: an update on the closure of Hahnemann Hospital, Camden County School District superintendent Katrina McCombs, and monarch migration.

Medical and genetic data from more than a million Americans are now in scientific databases. Some programs hoard the data, while others share widely with scientists.

Doctors and nurses are often barred from turning to FDA-approved medications that research shows to be the most effective way to quit.

There's mounting evidence that the measles virus can erase our immunity to everything from influenza viruses to diarrheal disease.