Medicine

For doctors and patients of color, navigating a healthcare system which favors white people can be challenging and, sometimes, dangerous.

Most with substance-use disorder begin using opioids as teenagers, so a Pennsylvania campaign aims to get young people to stop and think before taking pills.

Representatives from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck, Sanofi, and AbbVie, attended during Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee hearing.

Some doctors want to stop the Pa. Supreme Court from changing a rule tied to medical malpractice lawsuits.

Pregnancy rates among black and Latina teens are much higher than for white teens, but use of the most effective contraceptives is low among all teens.

The measure proposed prohibiting pharmaceutical company sales reps from providing gifts or dinners to physicians when they discuss narcotic sales.

New Jersey officials have been hitting the road to convince medical professionals of the benefits of medical marijuana — and dispel what they say are the myths.

Last season, an estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications — the disease's highest death toll in at least four decades.

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In the midst of an opioid crisis in Philadelphia, the city asks doctors to change how they prescribe pain-killers for after surgery.

The guidelines say all emergency departments in the state should be ready to treat patients who are already addicted with medications that prevent painful withdrawal symptoms.

There’s a nationwide shortage of the new shingles vaccine, called Shingrix, which is made by Glaxosmithkline.

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Pa.'s DOC has agreed to treat the state’s nearly 5,000 inmates with hepatitis C over the next three years.