Health
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Gene editing helped a desperately ill Delaware County baby thrive. Scientists say it could someday treat millions
Researchers described the case in a new study, saying the baby is among the first to be successfully treated with a custom therapy that seeks to fix a tiny but critical error in his genetic code that kills half of affected infants.
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Opinion: My son relies on Medicaid for round-the-clock care. Republicans want to cut it.
Tax season has come and gone yet again, with millions of American families filing last month. But as my family took part in this annual ritual, nothing felt quite the same.
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She has 23 medical conditions and Medicaid helps keep her alive. Republicans want to gut it.
More than 3 million Pennsylvania residents benefit from Medicaid, but the US House Republicans’ plan to make massive cuts to the program puts 800,000 of them at risk of losing their coverage.
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Measles cases up in Pa. and some counties lag behind school vaccination targets
In many counties, measles vaccination rates among school-aged children are below 95%, the target for herd immunity. And rates have been declining since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Opinion: I’m chronically ill, but can hold a job at Sheetz thanks to Medicaid. Cuts would put me at risk.
Beaver resident Carly Morton writes about how she relies on Medicaid to survive and work, and highlights the potentially devastating consequences of Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid.
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Deal struck to keep Pa. hospital system open – for now
If a pair of its hospitals close, the state’s fifth most populous county would only have two left.
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One of Pa.’s most populated counties could be down to two hospitals soon
Reports surfaced Thursday that a Delaware County hospital system could close two hospitals.
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Officials investigating confirmed case of measles in unvaccinated Montgomery County child
Contact tracing is underway as the Montgomery County Office of Public Health cautions that others may have been exposed.
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From psychosis to sleep to drug resistance, these Pittsburgh research efforts are threatened by Trump spending cuts, orders
A Trump administration decision to slash indirect cost funding in science and health grants, plus federal staff cuts, have Pitt researchers wondering how, and whether, they can continue.
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Republican Medicaid cuts would hurt 800,000 Pennsylvanians
US House Republicans voted this week to cut Medicaid by $880 billion to pay for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. These cuts would affect 800,000 Pennsylvanians.
