'Checkpoint inhibitors' show promise in cancer fight

Chunyere “Chichi” Ukeje, 25, will receive $300,000 for first place in the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table competition.

The decision was made after the state received more than 10,000 comments opposing the changes, the Pennsylvania Department of Health said Friday.

Penn helped test an mRNA cancer vaccine that succeeded in its late-stage clinical trial. “This was kind of the wake-up call that RNA vaccines in cancer have an enormous future,” Drew Weissman said.

Regent Surgical, a Tennessee firm that will manage the Penn-IBX locations, called the corporate structure a pioneer for involving a health system, insurer, and management firm.

For weeks, the CDC omitted measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania from its dashboard. Now it has acknowledged one death from the highly contagious disease, but did not say where it occurred.

Any profits from the investments will go back into the fund, which is managed by Penn's Office of the Chief Investment Officer.

Wozniak's successor as interim CEO is Jim Logue, who has been Redeemer's chief transformation officer since Feb. 2025.

The rural health system said it expect to lose $180 million in revenue next year because of Medicaid cuts and an increase in the number of uninsured individuals who will seek treatment.

More than half of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties have now reported at least one measles case.

The column emphasized his disagreement with decisions made under President Donald Trump’s administration over the last year and a half that have disrupted billions in scientific funding.

Highmark and Rothman had a dispute about the use of out-of-network physician assistants by a small number of Rothman surgeons.

“We have a philosophy of work as rehabilitation,” he told the Daily News in 1988. “The goal is to show these people they can do a whale of a lot more than they think they can do.”

“Ghost job” postings, AI interviewers, and a lack of in-person connection can add to the stress and take a toll on your mental health.

Premium rates for small businesses will go up an average of 10% next year.

The South Philadelphia-based organization, created in 2012, is now Comunidad Garces.

Vaccination remains the best way to decrease the likelihood of severe outcomes from the virus, as well as protect those around you who might be at higher risk.

Employee pay and benefits typically account for more than half of health system expenses and have contributed to rising healthcare costs for employers and governments.

The state’s measles outbreak is the largest in the country in 2026.

Leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees on Monday admonished the White House for its attempts to impose political controls on scientific research.

Win and they’re in the playoffs, and they can even lose and get in (with an Arizona loss). "You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do if that’s what it takes for us to get in," said Don Mattingly.

Today's advice from Dear Abby.

The goal now is to avoid infamy. It is to preserve legacy. It is to summon the last shred of political capital they earned in 2022 and escape from Game 162 with a reason to believe.

With the Phillies’ 12-1 loss to the Rays, their drawn-out collapse has become a five-alarm fire of humiliation. They will need Sunday to decide their fate.

The club set a record on Saturday for the longest unbeaten streak in franchise history, even with five starters away from the team because of international duty. Now, a break in league play awaits.