Health Care

Sherry Alvarez says she knew there was something different about her son since he was about 9 months old

Opera Philadelphia announces its 2018-2019 season, including the world premiere of an opera about Alzheimer's disease.

“Folks are coming with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, with anxiety."

"I would say the main takeaway is that abortions that are provided in the United States are safe and effective," says Ned Calonge, the co-chair of the committee.

The vast majority — more than 90 percent — of American College of Nurse-Midwives members are white. Some recent grads of Penn’s nurse-midwifery program want to change that.

Angola prison is the largest maximum security prison in the country. There are over 6,000 men incarcerated there, most of them serving life sentences.

After his mandated one-month confinement to a dog crate had ended, he returned happily to his old routines, which include walks at the end of a purple leash.

As more states begin creating work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients, calls to do the same in Pennsylvania are building.

The Delaware Fertility Care and Preservation Bill would help couples struggling to conceive by requiring private insurance companies cover infertility.

Surgery poses serious risks for older people, who weather anesthesia poorly and whose skin takes longer to heal.

Over the past week, 1,521 more Delawareans were diagnosed with the flu, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 5,758. There also were five flu-related deaths.

The 10 hospitals that took part in the collaboration were scattered all over Colorado.

Called "Medicare Extra for All," the proposal from CAP, gives politically energized Democrats more options to fulfill a long-sought goal.

Hundreds of Delaware women who receive services on the state-funded Mobile Health Screening Van may have to seek other providers if the state decides to cut its funding.

A prominent Florida eye doctor once accused of bribing Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey received a 17-year sentence Thursday for stealing $73 million from Medicare.