Health Care

Philadelphia police and the district attorney’s office say they’ve identified the driver who struck nurses and a gunshot victim Oct. 12 outside Penn Presbyterian.

A Rutgers University report says about 40 million U.S. voters are disabled. Advocates say they are less likely to receive political information and can face voting challenges.

Medicare’s annual open enrollment period runs from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7.

Amari and Javar Ruffin, whose family lives in Philadelphia, were born via cesarean section on Sept. 29, 2023.

Voxelotor, which was sold under the brand name Oxbryta, was suddenly pulled from the market over safety concerns from clinical trials outside the U.S.

Advocates hope the rulings will serve as reminders about what’s at stake in a post-Roe America just weeks before a presidential election partly defined by abortion rights.

Hurricane Helene shut down a factory in North Carolina that makes more than half of the U.S. supply of intravenous fluids. Hospitals use them everyday.

The vaccine program is open to all county residents and offers shots for COVID, flu, RSV and other diseases.

The new laws build on top of protections passed in previous years that have made Delaware a sanctuary state for providers and people seeking abortion care.

Abortion rights groups have outraised opponents by a nearly 8-to-1 margin in campaigns for ballot measures across the U.S. this year.

Democrats are seeing opportunity in Trump and Vance’s refusal to directly answer whether they would repeal Obamacare and what they would replace it with.

Sublocade is a long-acting form of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid use disorder. It’s given once a month as an injection instead of a daily oral dose.

The clinic will serve non- and under-insured residents, with a specific focus on African and Caribbean immigrants.

The gene therapy comes seven years after another research group at the university helped come up with the first FDA approved gene therapy for an inherited disease.

The CDC urges both an updated COVID-19 shot and yearly flu vaccine for everyone ages 6 months and older.