Health Care

Workers from 14 Pennsylvania nursing homes went on strike Friday after marathon contract negotiations failed to produce a deal.

The health department is offering grants to expand monkeypox vaccination services and outreach for populations who are at high risk for the disease.

Nearly 100 people at McPherson Square lit candles and read the names of deceased loved ones Wednesday.

The garden, open through September, honors loved ones who have died from opioid and substance use disorders, and calls attention to an ongoing addiction epidemic.

The synthetic painkiller is 50 times stronger than heroin, and two milligrams can kill. Officials want users to know if it’s in their heroin, cocaine, and other drugs.

Families and communities in the Greater Philadelphia area will come together on Wednesday, August 31, to remember and honor loved ones lost to addiction.

Monday's update ties the previous record for most cases reported in Philadelphia during a single week.

Prospect Medical Holdings, the parent company of the four-hospital system, wants to receive a management fee from Crozer Health after the nonprofit conversion.

Pa.’s highest court took the controversial step of reversing a rule aimed at tamping down a crisis of doctors leaving the state because of high medical malpractice insurance.

For the first time, prosthetics manufacturers in the U.S. also own clinics that can recommend their products to patients.

Some anesthesiologists and intensive care physicians mark August 27 as Bjørn Ibsen Day — honoring the lives he saved during a polio outbreak 70 years ago.

Students will be required to wear masks on campus for the first two weeks of the fall semester to stem an expected spike in COVID cases.

In statewide Pennsylvania races, candidates need support from suburban women. Doug Mastriano’s extreme abortion views may be turning them off.

The city’s health department launched a web-based tool this week with the goal of making it easier for residents to identify where they can seek free and low-cost primary care

Crozer is planning to return to nonprofit status as it seeks to evaluate the services that it offers at its hospitals.