FDA Approves Quick And Easy Flu Test
The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a faster, more accurate test that can be used in your local doctor's office.
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The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a faster, more accurate test that can be used in your local doctor's office.
New help for millions of people who suffer with chronic sinus infections. Imagine feeling like you constantly have a cold or trouble breathing. People with sinusitis usually depend on medications. There's surgery for severe cases and now a new way to make that more successful.
Flu numbers continue to grow in our area. Emergency departments are flooded with patients. And the flu epidemic being especially dangerous for babies.
Dr. Justin Bekelman, assistant professor of radiation oncology at Penn Medicine, says research shows even patients in their 80's can tolerate the addition of radiation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last month included the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia among an initial group of 35 designated hospitals across the country.
If you tend to feel intense guilt over things that happened in your past – and replay them over and over in your mind – you might want to read this.
The already brutal flu season has taken a turn for the worse in recent days, according to a new update issued Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The nationwide study Temple University is taking part in is for people who have no other treatment options available and their heart is failing.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Friday that lab test results came back negative in a potential case of measles in Delaware and Philadelphia counties that was announced earlier this week.
Hundreds of gowns are now at the Clarion Hotel in Essington, Pa., in preparation for the Delaware Valley's stop of the "Brides Against Breast Cancer Nationwide Tour."
A full year in the making, "Healthy PA" is unlikely to survive far beyond its first month. Governor-elect Tom Wolf has said he intends to replace it with a straight Medicaid expansion.
When working on the influenza vaccine for the following year, researchers make a guess as to which strains will be prevalent.
Hamilton Township officials have confirmed two additional cases of Hepatitis A in the community.
Barb Stebulis, of Ivyland, Pa., says she bought two roses for that float: one for her son, killed in a car crash in 2008, when he was 22, and the other for his heart recipient, Darrin.
Some folks are getting right on those New Year's resolutions to get fit this year. But how long will their resolve last?
