Medicine

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

Savannah Fleeman, 17, has a rare pain syndrome and says even the lightest touch felt like “being stabbed.” A controversial therapy pushed her to feel that pain over and over.

The implementation of medical marijuana in Pennsylvania was the focus of a session Tuesday during the annual conference of Pennsylvania county planners.

The facility, to be located on UD’s STAR campus, will house the national headquarters for the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals,

A new study suggests that African-American women are more likely to suffer from Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and are more likely to worsen before getting better.

Some say this is a turning point in using these treatments for cancer, and expect more developments in the future.

What we eat and how we feed ourselves is inherently cultural and political in nature.

Humans have a long history of sharing breast milk, but society’s acceptance has ebbed and flowed.

State-by-state analysis of spending on prison health care shows Pennsylvania near the bottom.

Surgery in the nineteenth-century was pretty gruesome – a lot of blood, pain, saws and no sanitation.  In fact, operating theaters use ...

Guests: Lindsey Fitzharris, Dan Lamothe Surgery in the nineteenth-century was pretty gruesome – a lot of blood, ...

President Trump has been taking steps to undermine the ACA through executive order, as Congress has been able to repeal and replace the l ...

On the first Friday of this month, four inmates at the Cumberland County jail in South Jersey overdosed in their cells almost simultaneously.

Guests: Kate Tuttle, Dan De Luce, Mary Agnes Carey We begin our show today talking about the Boy Scouts and their ...

The therapy can help children with a rare genetic eye disorder see better. It comes after two other recent significant developments in gene therapy.