Health Care

A bipartisan bill aims to permanently allow pharmacists and trained pharmacy staff members to vaccinate children. Pennsylvania Medical Society doctors oppose it.

The WA Cares Fund would help alleviate the financial burden of long-term care by providing workers a lifetime benefit of $36,500.

The U.S. Justice Department grant will be used, in part, to get people into treatment. And, to help children of substance abusers.

The four-hospital system in Delaware County has been reaching out to municipalities, threatening to shut off emergency medical services within 90 days unless they pay up.

The U.S. may be heading into another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline.

Philadelphia’s indoor mask mandate was triggered by the city’s COVID risk measurement system. Public health experts weigh in on how well that system works.

First observed in 2016, Black Maternal Health Week is recognized from April 11-17 to call “attention and action” to “improving Black maternal health,” according to the CDC.

In New Jersey, the maternal mortality rate for Black people is seven times higher than the rate for white people.

Retail licenses could be issued within a month, after approved alternative treatment centers pay fees and undergo compliance assessments.

Delco is no longer the largest county in the United States without its own health department as it was busy its first week tackling inspections, STIs, and tuberculosis.

Black women are more likely to get the noncancerous growths, at a younger age, and have higher rates of hysterectomy. A growing movement calls for more compassionate care.

Scientists are tracking a deadly bird flu outbreak that has infected wild birds in more than 30 states.

Many blame the agency's earlier guidance for suffering and even suicide risk among chronic pain patients. Critics say the updated advice may not fix the problem.

Now, more than two years into the pandemic, some parts of the U.S. are seeing an uptick in cases driven by the BA.2 subvariant.

In a 2-1 ruling Thursday, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a lower court and ordered dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the mandate.