Medicine

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After Mairead McInerney was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, ongoing drug shortages forced her treatment plan to be more grueling than she expected.

Rasheida Colon said the people in the store “literally saved my life because it could have been so bad.”

The increases vary around the country, with the virus appearing to be spreading the most in the southeast and the least in the Midwest.

Biden's administration said Thursday its Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is seeking ideas from the public and private sectors.

“A Home from Shana Foundation” was created by founder Cleopatra Herrera, who wanted to advocate for expecting Black mothers and their childbirth rights.

Rosa Health Center has grown from a small farmhouse office to serving over 2,000 patients in Delaware’s uninsured population. Now they’re growing again.

The center in Trenton will serve as an incubator for new programs to address racial disparities in maternal health outcomes.

The newly approved daily birth control pill, Opill, will be the first contraceptive pill sold as an over-the-counter option.

The first drug found to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease has been granted full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.

New regulations require more direct care hours for residents and tighter staffing ratios at nearly 700 long-term care facilities statewide.

The CDC concluded that by 2021, the "rate of drug overdose deaths involving xylazine was 35 times higher than the 2018 rate."

Pennsylvania law only allows physicians to perform abortions. Advanced practice clinicians say they want to be able to do the same.

The three-bill package passed the Senate Law and Justice Committee almost unanimously.

This injectable form of penicillin is a critical treatment for infections like syphilis, and could be in short supply for the rest of the year.