Aubrey Whelan

The person has not been identified and police do not suspect foul play in the incident. It is the fifth fatality involving an Amtrak train in the region in the last month.

Joe Kunz, who battled addiction for years, entered recovery last fall after seeking treatment for wounds caused by the animal tranquilizer xylazine.

In the wake of the Trump administration’s attempt to cut more than $11 billion in federal public health grants, Philadelphia-area organizations say they’re navigating a chaotic, uncertain environment.

The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education has a backlog of about 1,500 samples they would have otherwise tested by now, and three weeks ago it furloughed 12 staff members.

The exorbitant costs of drugs like Wegovy — especially compared to other countries — have prompted some insurers to tighten requirements around coverage.

Organizers said they were encouraged by the high turnout Friday and hopeful that the rally could be a jumping-off point for continued advocacy for scientific research in the area.

In the last year, several cases of measles have been identified in the Philadelphia region; last winter, a measles outbreak sickened nine people and sent six to the hospital in Philadelphia.

A New York woman had a rare medical condition that required the removal of her kidney. She opted to donate it to a stranger.

To amputate or save a limb? Philly’s tranq crisis is forcing doctors to make difficult choices amid a slow public health response to the latest threat in the drug epidemic.

The Pennsylvania Hospital Emergency Department and the Holy Redeemer Hospital Emergency Department were exposed to the virus.

The halted payments follow comments from a Trump administration official last week that $175 million in federal funding would be paused because Penn allowed a transgender athlete to compete.

Vaccination rates remain high, but just below a critical "community immunity" threshold of 95%.

Family members learned Penn anthropologists had kept some bones for more than three decades, reopening wounds over the city’s aerial bombing on Osage Avenue in 1985.

The first week of February saw more flu cases in Pennsylvania than any other week over the past five years with almost 29,000 infections, data from the state Department of Health show.

Lionell Dotson had contended that the school kept the remains of his sister Katricia after she was killed in the 1985 bombing of the Black liberation group’s West Philadelphia headquarters.

This will be Chestnut Hill staff’s first contract with the health system after they unionized in 2023.

County officials said anyone who visited a Starbucks on South Eagle Road in Newtown during certain hours on March 19 should monitor themselves for measles symptoms.

Pennsylvania has seen no human cases of the disease since the avian flu outbreak began in 2022.

Health officials said that the case is not connected to another measles case in Montgomery County, nor to a widespread outbreak in West Texas.

Kennedy, experts said, should have directly advocated for unvaccinated people to get the measles vaccine in a recent op-ed for Fox News.