Medicine

If an opioid addiction starts with a prescription after surgery or some other hospital-based care, should the hospital be penalized?

As public health officials grapple with how to slow the growing opioid epidemic, the over-prescription of narcotics after even minor surgery is coming under new scrutiny.

The money from the National Institutes of Health will go to the Dover school’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.

Columbia Care has confirmed that it will open a medical marijuana dispensary in Smyrna, rather than Milford as originally planned.

Gov.-elect Phil Murphy's administration promises to be markedly different from that of Gov. Chris Christie, who will leave office in January after two terms.

U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, is voicing opposition to the latest tax plan which aims to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. regulators have approved the first new treatment in nearly two decades to prevent internal bleeding in certain patients with hemophilia.

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Two veterans receive a lung each from the same donor at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Eight babies have been born in Sweden after their mothers received uterine transplants, but this has yet to be done in the U.S.

The Division of Professional Regulations say new regulations are preventing over prescribing.

Once people sign up, it’s up to state-approved doctors to decide whether to grant a medical marijuana card.

A national legal team will help Delaware determine what action to take against the opioid industry for contributing to the opioid epidemic in the First State.

AstraZeneca gets FDA approval to move forward with Calquence (acalabrutinib), a drug used to fight an aggressive form of blood cancer.

Nursing students go through several rotations, and, at Jefferson College of Nursing in Philadelphia, that can include time at a maximum security prison.