Medicine

Blood donations were down 25% nationally in July compared to the same time last year, according to the American Red Cross.

The pediatric surgeon founded the Black Doctors Consortium and worked as a regional health director under the Biden administration.

Hospitals routinely use these bottles to check for infections in patients’ blood — now they are cutting back on tests.

Would you give your kidney to a stranger? What if you could get a $50,000 tax credit for it? That's just one proposal for upping organ donation in the US.

Up to 1 million horseshoe crabs in the U.S. are harvested for biomedical purposes. A synthetic alternative could mean less harvesting of the “living fossils.”

The current contract between Temple Health and Keystone First health insurance was set to expire after July 31.

The rise comes as the CDC is preparing to end its program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to people without insurance.

Hospitals are legally required to care for undocumented patients in emergencies. But when a patient is too sick to be discharged, some turn to a controversial practice.

A promising new cure sparked a wave of renewed interest in gene therapies about a decade ago — but it also set off alarm bells in the financial world.

There is no general cure for HIV, a chronic disease that affects more than 39 million people globally, including more than 18,000 in Philadelphia.

Since January, more than 140 pharmacies across the state have shut down.

The study focused on semaglutide, the active ingredient in drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic. It is known to reduce feelings of hunger while increasing feelings of nausea.

Hot weather, too, can damage medicines such as insulin that require refrigeration. Inhalers can explode. Epinephrine injectors such as EpiPens can malfunction. \

These medications have been so wildly successful that the drugmakers can’t keep up with demand.

Some Philadelphia-area doctors say admissions to intensive care and asthma deaths among children have gone up this year, partly because of supply issues.