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Sarah Gantz • Inquirer

St. Luke's Health Uses AI Tool to Reduce Cardiac Arrests

The tool automatically alerts medical staff when a patient's status is declining.

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Staff • Reuters

CDC to Deploy Resources to Probe PA Measles Outbreak

The US CDC said on Tuesday it would deploy additional support to Pennsylvania to help investigate the ongoing measles outbreak, as the state formally...

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Aubrey Whelan • Philadelphia Inquirer

PA Measles Outbreak Echoes Deadly 1991 Philly Epidemic

Three decades later, physicians who treated children in 1991 can hardly believe that Pennsylvania is again contending with the nation’s worst measles...

6d agoRead it on Philadelphia Inquirer
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Sarah Gantz • Philadelphia Inquirer

Chester County Has More Measles Cases Than Most States in the U.S.

Nine out of 10 unvaccinated individuals who come in contact with measles will get sick....

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Zoe Read • WHYY

Microplastics Found Throughout the Delaware River Watershed

PennEnvironment and Drexel University researchers found microplastics in more than 20 waterways across the watershed....

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Staff • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Fifth Pennsylvania Resident Dies After Contracting Measles

As measles cases continue to rise in Pennsylvania, another resident has died after contracting the disease — the fifth fatality in the outbreak....

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Ben Seal • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Specter of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Looms Over PA’s Rural Communities

When Nicole Williams moved into her house in Pennsylvania’s North Centre Township in 2011, it was a homecoming. She’d spent the first few years of...

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Staff • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Allegheny Co. Health Board Votes to Approve Paid Parental Leave Policy

The Allegheny County Health Board voted Monday to approve county Executive Sara Innamorato’s proposed paid parental leave policy, advancing the...

2w agoRead it on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Johnny Diaz • The New York Times

Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Grows to Nearly 900 Cases

More than 50 new cases of measles have been reported in Pennsylvania since Wednesday, state health officials said, as efforts continue to combat an...

2w agoRead it on The New York Times
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Angela Couloumbis • Spotlight PA

Oversight in PA Aging Dept May Leave Older Adults at Risk

The audit’s stinging findings echo many of the failures Spotlight PA has documented in its investigation into Pennsylvania’s older adult protective...

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Stephana Ocneanu • Post-Gazette

Number of Pennsylvanians Going Hungry Rises Sharply

The number of Pennsylvanians going hungry has drastically risen in recent years, according to a new report Tuesday from the Central Pennsylvania...

2w agoRead it on Post-Gazette
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