Medicine

Insurance companies don’t cover most meal plans — because there’s not enough research to prove they should.

In Louisiana, even an informed patient got lost in barriers and stigma while trying to get a prescription for PrEP.

In our Monday Regional Roundup, we talk about a proposed hyperloop for Pa, Delaware's popular vote bill, and teenage sleep and school start times.

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

Drugmakers add inactive ingredients to stabilize medications and sometimes to help the body absorb active ingredients. But the inactive constituents can cause side effects.

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.

A survey finds that many people have skipped or rationed their prescription medications or have substituted cheaper over-the-counter drugs.

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.

About 1.1 million Americans are at high risk for HIV and could benefit from PrEP, according to the CDC. Around half of those are black men and women.

A team of scientists from MIT have developed a system to deliver insulin that actually still uses a needle — but is so small you can swallow it and the injection doesn't hurt.

Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, is hoping to control mosquitoes, and the diseases they carry, by switching off their enormous appetite.

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

Today there is a vaccine for this extremely contagious disease. But certain groups of parents opt not to vaccinate their children and that has led to outbreaks abroad.