Medicine

Novel drugs may offer fresh ways to reduce heart risks beyond the usual medicines to lower cholesterol and blood pressure.

People with severe but stable heart disease from clogged arteries may have less chest pain but it won’t cut their risk of having a heart attack after the procedure is done.

A former Hahnemann residency program director is warning that residents may be left without malpractice insurance to cover their time at the hospital.

We look at things that are hard to measure and the different approaches that we take to get those measurements correct.

The first attempt in the United States to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in the three patients who have had it so far.

As the number of teens and pre-teens vaping and using e-cigarettes continues to spike, some 70 hospitals across the state pool information and diagnoses.

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons has quietly started testing all inmates with hep C and curing those who stay long enough to complete treatment.

Doctors working as forensic investigators help solve some intense murder mysteries.

I ask all the families of my young patients if they are working, staying at home, or in school.

Care for adults with sickle cell disease has lagged behind pediatric care. Some adults may not be well enough to receive cures when they come.

Patients with sickle-cell disease are living longer and a cure could be around the corner. Why doctors in Philadelphia worry those adult patients might be left behind.

If Roland Henry had died in a different part of the country, his organs might have been recovered. And lives could have been saved.

Lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and its owners will be halted for six months in hopes of finalizing a settlement over the OxyContin maker's role in the national opioid crisis.

The group’s Pennsylvania chapter is suing the county in hopes it will allow people on probation to use medical cannabis.

Hundreds got their flu vaccine at a mobile clinic in Dover but the clinic had another purpose: preparing the state for a bigger health emergency like an anthrax attack.