Health & Wellness News

No ID, insurance, or money required, just show up — thanks to a team of volunteer doctors who will be offering their services to the public Oct. 19-20 in Allentown.

Lehigh Valley Health Network teamed up with Spirit Halloween for their annual Halloween party. More than 200 children came to celebrate.

Easton Area Neighborhood Center has selected Alison Czapp, a local food and antipoverty advocate, as the new executive director of their organization.

Ryan Stehlik, a longtime patient of Shriners Children's Philadelphia, will represent the hospital this weekend at the Shriners Children's Open, a PGA golf tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada.

An IV shortage due to hurricanes in the south has B.Braun ramping up production. The Allentown company is hiring more employees to produce more medical equipment amid the shortage.

In their seventh annual event, Beards for Breasts raised thousands of dollars for cancer patient support programming via an auction where the prize was the chance to shave men's beards at an Easton pub on Oct. 15, 2024.

Congresswoman Susan Wild held a roundtable on reproductive rights. She hosted a panel of women in Allentown to share stories of pregnancy loss and IVF success.

The Lehigh Valley's two health networks both add cardiac CT scanners to underserved areas. St. Luke's unveiled theirs in Schuylkill County, while and LVHN began using the new equipment in Montgomery County.

Dozens of former patients of Lehigh Valley Health Network’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit reunited with their prior caregivers Sunday.

People in Florida are picking up the pieces of their lives as not one but two hurricanes batter the coast in as many weeks. Red Cross volunteers from the Lehigh Valley continue to lend a helping hand.

The Watson-Batts School of construction is partnering with St. Luke's to offer better health outcomes through workforce development. The school teaches young entrepreneurs and business owners about how to grow their businesses.

Lessons in hands-on healthy eating — and growing food locally — are in the near future of some younger students in Lehigh County.

On June 24, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended its federal eviction moratorium through July 31. U.S. Rep. Susan Wild (D-Lehigh/Monroe) says there are federal dollars available for Lehigh Valley residents who need rental assistance.

Pennsylvania House Republicans voted to prohibit schools and universities from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for students — and to strip the state health secretary from being able to order certain emergency public health measures in the future.

During Pride Month the Mayo Clinic is informing the LGBTQ community that it’s important to let their healthcare provider know who they are. This information is critical, they say.

Latino leaders from across the state said Thursday the 2021 Pennsylvania Latino Convention will take place in Reading this fall.

Some people in the LGBTQ community have had questions about whether it’s safe for them to get the COVID-19 vaccine, even if they are on other medications.

As the pandemic battered healthcare workers on the frontline, a group of retired nurses from Lehigh Valley Health Network jumped in to lend a hand.

The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate voted June 10 to end Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID-19 disaster declaration. The resolution passed the house on June 8, and now goes back to that chamber for a final concurrence vote.

More than $1 million is coming to the City of Allentown from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Nearly half that money will be spent on child immunization awareness to help ease bottlenecks that happen each school year.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services is extending support for older youth who have aged out of the foster care system.

U.S. Speciality Formulations, based in Bethlehem, is preparing to launch Phase 1 trials of an oral, liquid COVID-19 vaccine that could change how people get future COVID vaccines.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services is extending support for older youth who have aged out of the foster care system.

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