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Byline: Jason Laughlin Dec. 16With the start of winter just days away, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising in the Philadelphia region though the numbers remain lower than during past [...]

Byline: Sarah Gantz Sep. 22More than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are preventable, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings in [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan Sep. 17Overdoses involving methamphetamine are rising nationally, according to an analysis from the Pew Charitable Trusts with New Jersey seeing the nation's greatest increase in its meth-related [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan Sep. 17Overdoses involving methamphetamine are rising nationally, according to an analysis from the Pew Charitable Trusts with New Jersey seeing the nation's greatest increase in its meth-related [...]

Byline: Tom Avril PHILADELPHIA By the fall of 2020, the pandemic's first year, doctors treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients said they were starting to get the regimen down to a science. [...]

Byline: Tom Avril Aug. 10By the fall of 2020, the pandemic's first year, doctors treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients said they were starting to get the regimen down to a science. [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan Mar. 23Black Americans' overdose death rates increased more quickly than those for any other racial or ethnic group in 2020, a new study has found, confirming fears [...]

Byline: Erin McCarthy, Justine McDaniel and John Duchneskie PHILADELPHIA Nine thousand people in Pennsylvania have died of COVID-19 since Dec. 1, making it one of the states hardest hit in [...]

Byline: Erin McCarthy, Justine McDaniel and John Duchneskie Feb. 17Nine thousand people in Pennsylvania have died of COVID-19 since Dec. 1, making it one of the states hardest hit in [...]

Byline: Samantha Melamed Dec. 27Four men who had been incarcerated in Philadelphia jails died over the last two weeks, raising the death toll to 18 people this year. It is [...]

Byline: Mark Guydish Dec. 16A new report that reviewed performance for 14 different medical conditions and procedures found Luzerne County's three acute care hospitals generally do as well as expected, [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan Jun. 3Overdoses killed 1,214 Philadelphians in 2020, marking the city's second-highest drug death toll on record, and one likely worsened by COVID-19 lockdowns, city officials said. Just [...]

Byline: Justine McDaniel Nov. 21As the toll of the coronavirus surge continued to strain the region, Pennsylvania reported more than 100 coronavirus-related deaths for the third straight day Friday, pushing [...]

Byline: Anthony R. Wood Aug. 02-- Aug. 2--One of Philadelphia's hottest Julys since the government began keeping score in 1871 has put up some eye-popping numbers, tying a record for [...]

Byline: Justine McDaniel May 09-- May 9--New Jersey will begin testing asymptomatic people, Chester County is set to become the first county in Pennsylvania to begin antibody testing, and 13 [...]

Byline: Renatta Signorini May 07-- May 7--A man died from the coronavirus in Westmoreland County, bringing the death toll to 32, officials said Thursday. Coroner Ken Bacha is keeping a [...]

Byline: Lauren Aguirre March 06-- Mar. 6--After the shutdown of the South Philly refinery site, it was workers vs. climate activists. My colleague Juliana Feliciano Reyes explores why and whether [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan Dec. 19-- Dec. 19--Philadelphia's opioid overdose crisis -- the worst of any big city in the nation -- is contributing to skyrocketing death rates among people experiencing [...]

Dec. 16-- Dec. 16--There was a time that living with HIV was an unimaginable idea. HIV was the contagious virus that dragged you down the unavoidable road to AIDS, and [...]

Byline: Anthony R. Wood July 19-- Jul. 19--The summer temperatures in Philadelphia in the last 10 years been on average higher than they were in the sizzling 1990s, yet the [...]

June 24-- Jun. 24--A recent study found that Pennsylvania has the third highest overdose death rate in the country in 2017, the last year with full data. One would think [...]

Byline: Mark Guydish March 22-- Mar. 22--The annual County Health Rankings are out, and Luzerne County fared poorly almost anyway you look at it, ranking 63rd of the state's 67 [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan Oct. 07--Outside the Bellevue Hotel on an August afternoon, Jose Benitez and Ronda Goldfein were preparing for the hard sell. For months, they had been working quietly [...]

July 28--Last Friday and Saturday at least 165 people arrived at Philadelphia's emergency rooms suffering from an overdose after using heroin. Ten people died. According to Dr. Thomas Farley, Philadelphia's [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan PHILADELPHIA _ Philadelphia, with the highest opioid death rate of any major American city, on Tuesday announced plans to encourage the opening of sites where people can [...]

Byline: Renatta Signorini Oct. 08--A more complete picture of statewide overdose death statistics is slowly coming together on a website operated by University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy researchers. In [...]

PHILADELPHIA: Wapner, Newman, Wigrizer, Brecher & Miller has issued the following press release:As pedestrian death rates have risen across the United States, Philadelphia has been grappling with the dangers its [...]

San Diego: Heroin Detox Clinics has issued the following press release: The newest addition to the popular heroin and opiate treatment website HeroinDetoxClinics.com is a post focused on the city [...]

Byline: Ben Schmitt Oct. 18--A puzzling bureaucratic feud simmers in the background of joint efforts to stamp out Pennsylvania's deadly opioid crisis. Perhaps it's just a misunderstanding. The dispute centers [...]

Byline: Ben Schmitt Oct. 05--Some of Pennsylvania's coroners continue to hamper overdose data collection efforts in the fight against heroin and opioids, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. 'Certainly in the [...]

Byline: Ann Belser Jan. 16--Pennsylvania had the lowest number of workplace fatalities in 2012 with 163 deaths than any year since the bureau started recording fatalities in 1992, the Bureau [...]

Byline: Tom Avril Nov. 07--Surgeons in Pennsylvania are doing fewer heart-bypass surgeries every year, yet more patients than ever are making it out of the hospital alive. That is the [...]

Byline: Andrew M. Seder Dec. 23--Hospitals in northeastern and central Pennsylvania fared worse when compared to statewide averages of mortality rates for more than half of 12 common medical conditions [...]

Byline: Bob Frye Aug. 26--Not to go all poltergeist on you, but it's baaack. EHD, or epizootic hemorrhagic disease, has apparently returned to Pennsylvania. Game Commission veterinarian Walt Cottrell announced [...]