Health Care

Chester County hopes to deploy the mobile mental health crisis teams starting July 2023 as part of a new three-pillar approach to mental and behavioral health services.

St. Francis Hospital in Trenton is now operating as a standalone emergency room, under a new name, following a merger with Capital Health.

Federal agencies have awarded about $3.5 million in total to Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey to expand mental health and suicide crisis response.

Caring for sick children has become extra stressful recently for many U.S. parents due to shortages of Children’s Tylenol and other medicines.

Dark chocolate bars tested by Consumer Reports exceeded California's daily maximum allowable dose levels for lead or cadmium.

The Biden administration is moving to make it easier for Americans with opioid addiction to gain access to medical treatments proven to save lives.

Legionnaires' disease is a bacterial disease that can be contracted through breathing in small droplets of water that contain legionnaires bacteria.

Biden stressed that the new law doesn't require vets to prove that burn pits caused a range of maladies and certain cancers, including brain cancer.

Members of Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Advisory Board are publicly questioning the Wolf administration’s oversight of doctors and third-party certification companies.

Pediatric cases of RSV and flu have sent families crowding into ERs, as health systems struggle with staff shortages.

Last year, 515 Delawareans died of overdoses. “It's really disheartening when you see people doing lots of work,” one victim’s father says.

"One of those measures is that we may consider requiring masking for a time period after returning from extended breaks."

Unions and labor organizations representing thousands of New Jersey public sector workers are requesting financial aid to help deal with rising premium costs.

Auditors uncovered millions of dollars in improper payments — citing overcharges of more than $1,000 per patient a year on average — by nearly two dozen health plans.

Nursing homes leaders are redoubling efforts to get staff and residents boosted with the new version of the COVID-19 vaccine.