FDA approves J&J Ebola test

David Dinenberg's Kind Financial won over investors and a few customers but couldn't turn a profit. He has been accused of stealing investors' and growers' money.

His 44 years of research and clinical work, from 1978 to 2022, advanced the understanding and management of diseases, and extended the life expectancy of Marfan syndrome patients by 30 years.

Philly Pretzel Factory, Campbell's, and Honeygrow are taking notice as one in eight Americans use weight-loss medications.

TerraPower Isotopes, a subsidiary of a nuclear energy company founded by Bill Gates, is expected to employ 225 people at the site when it is fully operational in 2029.

He played on the Green Bay Packers 1962 championship team and blossomed into a star with the Eagles from 1963 through 1966.

The planned factory in Upper Macungie Township gives Pennsylvania a big win in the race to attract some of the billions in spending by Big Pharma to boost U.S. manufacturing.

The University of Pennsylvania, biotech firm BioNTech, and Osage University Partners, a venture capital firm in Bala Cynwyd, launched the fund to back early-stage life sciences startups at Penn.

Alveus, founded in early 2024 by Philadelphia- and Belgium-based New Rhein Healthcare Investors, is trying to develop obesity treatments that are more tolerable and have greater durability.

The deal will secure part of Cencora's customer base for lucrative cancer drugs. The Conshohocken company also control a management company for retina specialists.

It's not clear what the deal will mean for the research and development center Amicus has in University City.

Philadelphia has lagged in biotech R&D jobs despite University of Pennsylvania scientists playing a leading role in developing major areas of medical innovation like cell and gene therapy and mRNA.

Philadelphia is joining the San Francisco Bay area, Boston, and San Diego as a host of a Lilly Gateway Labs biotech incubator. The incubator is in Breakthrough Properties' building at 2300 Market St.

The announcement is the latest step the administration, driven by Kennedy and his supporters, has taken to reshape America’s public health landscape.

The new projects, including AI efforts in Pennsylvania and three other states, are part of the British firm's pledge to invest $30 billion in the United States over the next five years.

The macro environment of American vaccine policy is being radically reshaped by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — an abrupt shift that is casting a pall on the business of developing vaccines.

The job cuts add to a string of layoffs in the Philadelphia region's biotech sector this year.

Legal dispensaries allege that smoke shops and wholesalers are engaging in an unfair trade practice: selling intoxicating marijuana under the guise of hemp.

Interius is working on a more efficient way to deliver CAR-T therapy to patients.

The new owner of Adaptimmune's T-cell treatment for a rare form of cancer is expected to offer jobs to most of the 160 people who still work for Adaptimmune in South Philadelphia.

The senator, who has been mentioned as a possible 2028 presidential candidate, is the latest lawmaker whose health issues have kept them from the Capitol this year.

The Villanova Spires - an all-male a cappella group - began performing the surprise personalized birthday songs mostly on campus last November; now they have more requests than they can handle.

As mayor-elect following a stunning upset, she will need to navigate political rifts in balkanized City Hall while taking on an array of problems that have defied her predecessors.

After a midterm that relegated Republicans to their thinnest ranks on Capitol Hill in decades, some of them are blaming the president.

President Donald Trump has chosen Stephen Miller, known for his harsh language and extreme opinions, as the new White House chief of staff.

James, who began his historic career with his hometown Cavaliers and won the 2016 NBA title in his return to the franchise, struggled in his first game back since joining the Sixers over the summer.