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For the past two years, people on Medicaid in Pennsylvania have been guaranteed continued health coverage, even if they’re no longer eligible. That’s because states have to keep everyone on Medicaid while the country is under a public health emergency.

Rates of syphilis passed onto infants are at the highest Philadelphia has seen in decades. WHYY’s Nina Feldman reports that concerns health officials because the disease is most dangerous when babies are born with it.

Vaccination rates for Black and Latino people in Philadelphia are half those of their white and Asian counterparts. It appears lack of access is more to blame than hesitancy to get vaccinated.

Since Philadelphia cut ties with Philly Fighting COVID, the Black Doctors Consortium has become the only public-facing, community vaccination clinic in…

A federal appeals court ruled the effort by nonprofit Safehouse to open a "supervised injection site" to prevent overdose deaths is laudable but illegal under the so-called federal crack house law.

The massive vaccine rollout across the Philadelphia region is off to a slow start. WHYY's Nina Feldman reports on why things are so bogged down.(Original…

The founder of Philadelphia's Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium and members of her team recently received their first doses of the Pfizer coronavirus…

A Dec. 10 advisory panel vote cleared the path for the FDA to approve Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, and health care workers are first in line to receive it.…

Officials may be relying on people to do their part to stop the spread of COVID-19 at a time when the public is simply not afraid enough anymore to keep up the recommended behaviors.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act which, if dismantled, would result in millions of…