Treatment

Video Games COVID-19

Video games may have a role in shaping public health, researchers say

A daily pill to treat COVID could be just months away, scientists say

Antiviral COVID-19 Pill

Outcomes improving for critically ill COVID-19 patients, Penn study finds

Penn Critically Ill COVID

Caron Treatment Centers receives grant funding to help Black families pay for substance use disorder treatment

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Steroids reduce death rate of critically ill COVID-19 patients, WHO analysis says

Steroid use for COVID-19

Safehouse's plan to open overdose prevention site in South Philly sparks contentious reaction

Safehouse OPS Site

Philly takes 'major step forward' in opioid crisis by expanding buprenorphine access

Philly Opioid Crisis Buprenorphine

Bucks, Montgomery counties receive funding for inmate Suboxone treatment

Bucks Montgomery Suboxone

Doctors in Thailand treat coronavirus with anti-viral cocktail of HIV drugs and Tamiflu

HIV Flu drugs treat Coronavirus

Here's how to protect yourself during a vertigo episode

Vertigo related to migraine

Anthrax could offer next frontier of bladder cancer treatment, researchers say

Anthrax Bladder Cancer

Pennsylvania strikes $48 billion opioid epidemic deal with 5 companies

Opioids Shapiro

Liberation Way employees plead guilty in Bucks County addiction treatment scheme

Liberation Way

Penn, Yale researchers looking at opioid use disorder under a different light

penn yale opioid use center

Pneumonia treatment by King of Prussia company gets FDA approval

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Opioid treatment programs coming to all Delaware prisons

opioid treatment delaware prison

FDA warns against fecal transplant treatment after one patient dies

FDA fecal transplant treatment for C. difficile

Governing health organization recommends daily preventative HIV treatment for at-risk individuals

hiv prevention drug guidelines

Harvard researchers posed as drug addicts to illustrate the struggle for treatment

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Alternative Medicine

The best essential oils for an all-natural anti-itch mosquito bite treatment

essential oil mosquito bite treatment

Broccoli derivative may prove to be a viable schizophrenia treatment, study finds

broccoli schizophrenia treatment

That super-promising peanut allergy treatment has flaws, further research finds

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Health Insurance

New Jersey law will help ease financial burden of mental health treatment

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FDA approves bone-building osteoporosis treatment geared toward high-risk women

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Esketamine: what you need to know about this promising new drug for treatment-resistant depression

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Alternative Medicine

People are treating their rosacea with cheap horse medicine, and dermatologists are saying, 'Whoa!'

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What the internet is saying about Israelis' claim for cancer cure

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Fighting the opioid epidemic with opioids: prescription heroin to treat addiction

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This shower hack is an all-natural cure for your stuffy nose

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Amazon to offer new line of at-home health care devices and accessories

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Jefferson: new research regarding how seizures begin

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How soon is soon enough to learn you have Alzheimer’s?

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Staying alive: How to fight an opioid addiction

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New Penn research could be hopeful discovery for melanoma patients

CHOP Children's Hospital

FOX29's Mike Jerrick 'fighting,' receiving treatment for depression

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Penn dermatologists discover unlikely source to prevent scarring in wounds

Pennsylvania has the most Lyme disease cases in the nation

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How to fight major depression? Breathing, study suggests

Eagleville Hospital opening heroin, opioid addiction program for young men

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Penn doctor: 'Therapeutic illusion' leads to inappropriate medical treatments

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