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Governor-elect Josh Shapiro today announced nominations for five key health leadership positions in his administrative cabinet.

COVID-19 and the flu appeared to be trending in opposite directions heading into 2023, according to the latest reports from the federal government.

Pennsylvania’s newly elected state and federal leaders have an important opportunity to advance health care across the commonwealth, especially to improve access to behavioral health.

Health care organizations continue to face a significant threat from ransomware attacks that aim to disrupt the delivery of care.

Nearly one in three U.S. adults had either a substance use disorder or a mental illness in the past year, according to a new report from the Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration.

The nation’s hospitals saw improved financial performance during November, but still reported negative margins to date, according to a new report from health care analyst Kaufman Hall.

Heading into 2023, a new dominant COVID-19 subvariant has emerged in the U.S.

This year saw plenty of new COVID-19 developments, but we saw several other important topics come to the forefront as well, including a growing focus on health care cybersecurity, the behavioral health crisis, hospitals’ financial strain, and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The potential for children to get seriously ill from RSV, COVID-19, and the flu has been weighing heavily on the minds of many American parents this winter.

Pennsylvania saw modest improvement in the number of children with health insurance during the pandemic, according to a new report from the Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children.