health care

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey, D-PA, held a hearing entitled “Uplifting Families, Workers, and O...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — More than a year after federal prosecutors accused UPMC and a star surgeon of engaging in a massive fraud scheme that put profits b...

DuBOIS — Penn Highlands DuBois is helping to raise the next generation of physicians through its Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program. Physician e...

Taxpayers reasonably wonder why some nonprofit organizations, such as big hospital systems, are tax-exempt while paying executives salaries of seven f...

HARRISBURG — The Shapiro Administration and the Department of Human Services (DHS) is urging anyone enrolled in Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program, also ...

LOCK HAVEN (TNS) — UPMC said Friday it will eliminate regular hospital beds at UPMC Lock Haven Hospital, but will continue providing emergency care at...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A bipartisan pair of state senators plan another push to allow nurse practitioners to work independently in Pennsylvania, enabling ...

Pennsylvania’s Child Health Insurance Program is now 30 years old. Since 1992, it has been a pathway to healthy lives for children in the Keystone Sta...

More than $670 million in investment losses contributed to an overall net loss for local health care giant Highmark Health during the first nine month...

As we marked National Rural Health Day this year (Nov. 17), we are reminded that a strong community is rooted in its people. The Biden administration ...

Hundreds of workers from 14 Pennsylvania nursing homes went on strike Friday after contract negotiations failed to produce a deal. About 700 unionized...

Dentistry long has been treated as a separate element of health care, even though oral health is crucial to overall well-being. It’s also a distinct b...

One of the COVID-19 pandemic’s ancillary effects was the proof it provided that broadband internet service is an essential public utility rather than ...

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over but it’s at the point that researchers can examine the effectiveness of responses around the world. As of Friday, acc...

Each May is National Nurses’ Month — a month-long celebration and commemoration of the work our nurses do to keep us healthy. National Nurses’ Week wa...

One of the most dysfunctional aspects of America’s dysfunctional health care system is medical debt. Even insured patients today can find themselves s...

The legislative hearing about rural health care challenges and solutions scheduled to be held Wednesday at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford wi...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives Majority Policy Committee will hold a hearing next week in Bradford to hear from industry professionals abou...

A year and a half into the pandemic, the long-feared specter of rationed health care — that is, the delay or denial of medical treatment to some patie...

One-point-five trillion dollars is a lot of money. But by reportedly saying that’s the most he is willing to have the federal government spend on a pa...