One year of inspections at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital: February 2025 — January 2026

An unvaccinated Montour County resident who tested positive for measles has died.

The results improved compared to last year, when the health system had restructuring costs.

The new law would effectively end the market in Philadelphia entirely. A kratom seller and industry group have challenged the ordinance in court.

The nonprofit health system has hired three additional outside firms to help speed results and is rethinking its contracts with private practices that have long provided radiology and other services.

The FTC told a data company it could no longer sell data it collected when people visited hospitals, dialysis clinics, or abortion clinics. But little is stopping other companies from doing so.

Concerns about overdiagnosis and overtreatment had driven a shift away from routine screening. But advances in clinical trials and diagnostic tools have prompted a reassessment in its favor.

Cuts in funding began early in the Trump administration under DOGE. Universities were targeted, in large part over DEI policies and accusations of antisemitism. Now China and Canada see an opening.

Environmental labs are starting to sell tests that will allow consumers to check whether these tiny microplastics lurk in their drinking water.

The emphasis on consuming enough protein seems at odds with decades of nutrition research. Here's a breakdown of the requirements by age group and how they should obtain it.

As the Wistar Institute’s next CEO, Drapkin hopes to build partnerships across Philly's science ecosystem while continuing his research into ovarian cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment.

A group of small physical therapy firms in the Philadelphia area are trying to draw Independence Blue Cross' attention to what they see as a devaluation of physical therapy through rate cuts.

After decades of falling into disrepair in Philadelphia, the ship will finally be laid to rest.

Health officials confirmed a positive measles case in Bucks County on Monday. Here's what we know.

Leaders from the Pan American Health Organization, which is part of the World Health Organization, are meeting this week to decide if measles can still be called eliminated in the U.S.

The drop in star ratings for its Medicare Advantage plans will reduce the payments it receives from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services by $43 million, Jefferson said in its lawsuit.

A Democratic-controlled Congress could try to reverse cuts to health coverage, lower prescription drug costs, and pursue other health priorities. But the president's veto power remains a barrier.

The movement from a family doctor handling all care to hospital-based specialists for in-patient care is an overall positive, but it makes moving back to the general practitioner more challenging.

The new draft guidance could enable more personalized treatments like the first-of-its-kind gene-editing therapy developed for Baby KJ.

Until last month, doctors had few ways to track the rise in medetomidine cases in their hospitals — because there were no International Classification of Disease codes associated with them.

April Lee and Sarah Katz write that we must end our reliance on the foster system to keep children “safe” and redirect resources outside of the child welfare system so families can stay together.

An art critic surveyed the thousands of pieces at PMA and PAFA's two-venue exhibit, over several visits, and chose the ones that are mandatory viewing

When a beloved Wawa employee was fired after 21 years, his neighbors organized a campaign to bring him back. But Phil Dougherty may have other plans.

Including a new documentary about very old people and Wesley Stace's show in Wayne.

"How about a Flyers game?"

During World War II more than 35,000 worked at the shipyard. The city's population today is about 34,000.