Health Care

Among black men in Philadelphia who’ve suffered traumatic injuries, most psychological symptoms are not treated.

Soon, medical marijuana patients in Pennsylvania won’t just be limited to taking oils, pills, and liquid forms of the drug.

Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.

Andrea Avery was a piano whiz kid until she developed rheumatoid arthritis at age 12. The disease symptoms can leave her feeling able-bodied one day, disabled the next.

Acquisition of Einstein would give Jefferson a network of 18 Philadelphia-area hospitals worth $6 billion.

Guests: Anupam Jena, Jonathan Reisman The staggering rise of opioid-related deaths in America has reached critica ...

Measure under consideration by state lawmakers also calls for including chronic pain as qualifying condition.

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.