As the first resident in St. Luke’s Athletic Training: Prevention and Wellness residency program, Nilvia Vazquez is preparing for a career in creating healthier and safer workplaces.

Reading Hospital Foundation received a $320,694 grant from United Way of Berks County that will be used to help Tower Health’s Reading Hospital Street Medicine Program, which provides medical care to the homeless.

Marisa McFadden helps heal the hurting. An alternative medicine practitioner, she employs a combination of psychic intuition, energy-work and shaman-like exercises at Creative Spirit, her Easton-based therapy practice, to bring forth each client’s fullest human potential.

Legalizing recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania would support at least 32,000 full-time in-state jobs, $3.3 billion in sales per year and $520 million in annual tax revenues, according to a study released by Seattle-based Cannabis marketplace Leafly.

Dr. Christopher Sarnoski, medical director of the structural heart program at Bethlehem’s Saint Luke’s University Health Network, is breaking up heart artery blockages using a method similar to those used to break up kidney stones. The technique, approved by the FDA in February, according to SLUHN, involves threading a thin wire into a patient’s coronary ...

Lehigh Valley Health Network vaccinated a one-day high of 9,286 people on April 14. It was the first time the Allentown-based network was administering vaccines at all of its new community clinics.

St. Luke’s announced the opening of their COVID Recovery Clinic at a virtual press conference on April 15. The Clinic, offered network-wide at the Bethlehem-based St. Luke’s University Health Network, is dedicated to the treatment of post-COVID patients with extended symptoms.

Pain and injuries from improper or frequent mask wearing and working from home in less-than-ideal workspaces are on the rise. Physicians and therapists weigh in on what we can do about it.

St. Luke’s University Health Network opened an advanced detoxification unit at its Sacred Heart Campus in Allentown to provide 24-hour medical supervision to people withdrawing from alcohol or other drugs.

Pennsylvania has administered first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to 35.4% of its eligible population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.