Medicine

The workers’ top priority is adding successorship language to a contract. That would require any new owner to honor the union accord already in place.

National Institutes of Health award $11.7 million to university to spearhead project comparing narcotic and non-narcotic pain medicine treatments

Seventeen local defendants, including five medical professionals, are among those ensnared in a coordinated health care fraud enforcement action.

Physician David Fajgenbaum discusses his new memoir about his struggle with a rare and fatal disease and his search to understand and cure it.

A geriatrician's lawsuit has New Jersey's aid in dying law on hold. It's part of a long fight over similar laws across the country.

An Oklahoma judge found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572M to clean up the problem.

Weight Watchers new app for kids has been criticized for possibly harming users self-esteem. We'll talk about how to teach kids healthy habits and a positive body image.

Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis.

Doctors warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid.

In a letter Friday, the dean of the medical college said those who applied for tuition remission can still collect it for themselves and their dependents.

Globally, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming an increasing problem. The Wistar Institute convened researchers to discuss alternative treatments.

It weakens an import ban that has stood as a symbol of the political clout of the pharmaceutical industry.

Emily Steinberg, a painter and graphic novelist, believes comics are a powerful way to confront feelings and combat loneliness in medicine.

The owner of the hospital, which plans to close, announces it will free up the federal dollars trainee doctors need to seek employment elsewhere.

The proposed closure timeline released Tuesday still needs official approval from the city Health Commissioner’s Office and the state Health Department.