Health Care

Access to maternity care is decreasing in the parts of the U.S. that need it the most, affecting nearly 7 million women of childbearing age and some 500,000 babies.

Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia studied how exposure therapy can help kids overcome excessive anxiety related to their food allergies.

The judge is ordering Crozer Health and its parent company to suspend “any actions materially altering the present operation” of DCMH while the court looks over the case.

Emergency responders went to the center in Allentown, Pa., on reports of an unconscious child.

'Breathless' tells the story of the worldwide scientific quest to understand and trace the origins of Covid-19 and develop treatments to fight the deadly virus.

Sick kids are crowding emergency rooms in parts of the country and some pediatric hospitals say they're running out of beds.

Restrictions are returning to telemedicine, an area of medicine that exploded in popularity early in the pandemic.

Here we go again. The virus is starting to surge in many European countries and there are early signs a wave may be starting in the U.S. too.

A number of circulating viruses are causing rising rates of respiratory infections in kids, with hospitals and ICUs seeing an uptick in admissions.

Underperforming nursing homes would be subject to potential punitive actions by the state, including Medicaid enrollments restrictions and reducing funding.

The dermatological, biochemical and pharmaceutical experiments were performed by University of Pennsylvania researcher Dr. Albert Kligman.

State health leaders are bracing for the possibility of “two epidemics going on at the same time” and are working on a plan to better track how the viruses spread.

It is the first time in the program’s 30-year history that it received more used syringes than clean ones distributed.

We talked to experts to help answer some of the most common and confusing questions.

Two biotech companies announced last week that preliminary trial data show their new Alzheimer’s drug, lecanemab, slowed cognitive decline.