Two council members and council's former solicitor raised no-bid contract concerns that fed the DA's probe of Ed Gainey's administration, an affidavit shows.

At a highly anticipated Senate hearing, Anthony Fauci evoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions about the Covid-19 pandemic and its origins.

A Pennsylvania judge has cleared the way for the state’s Medicaid program to begin covering abortions while a constitutional challenge plays out before the state Supreme Court.

The risk for heat-related impacts is forecast to reach major or extreme levels for around 220 million Americans, according to NOAA.

As electricity bills rise, solar advocates are pushing for a more accessible form of renewable energy.

After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...

Slower processing speed, executive function may be earliest signals of waning cognition

A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer.

Trump officials are disregarding the Biden administration's detailed pandemic plans in favor of their own strategy.

Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and deceive the system’s users into thinking they're getting medical advice from a licensed professional.

Four astronauts are expected to loop around the moon in a risky, technically challenging 10-day mission.

A jury has found Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services.

Key revenue sources for pharmacy benefit managers have gone by the wayside, leading companies to seek new ways to make money.

Pittsburgh city officials say police are increasing their patrols around religious institutions in some areas following a third day of threatening and hateful messages broadcast over a public safety r...

Overprescribing antibiotics breeds antibiotic resistance. A new tool aims to lower a notably high rate of such prescriptions in Rwanda.

Their plan would sideline middlemen in the pharmaceutical supply chain known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, which have come under increased scrutiny in recent years.

Prior authorization requires doctors to get approval from a patient’s insurance company before they’ll cover a procedure, prescription or a service such as an imaging exam. Companies use the process a...

In an order Monday, Judge Cathy Bissoon reaffirmed her December denial of the DOJ’s subpoena to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh for records.

Chris Moore, longtime host of WQED TV's Black Horizons, will retire after his call-in show this Sunday on KDKA radio.

Despite decades of chasing leads, investigators had been unable to identify the victim of a 1992 homicide on the North Side. Until now. Scientists used forensic-grade genome sequencing to build a comp...

ICE has remained tight-lipped about the reasons they took Jose Flores into custody last Thursday. His family has said he has a valid asylum claim and work permit.

The new position comes with a $145,018 salary, per information available as of December. The board oversees the state’s gambling industry, regulating slot machines and table games at casinos, as well ...

Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term.

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical co...

Trump administration officials vetoed the FDA's plan to fast-track the review of a psychedelic treatment for severe depression, STAT has learned.

An outbreak of measles has been confirmed in Lancaster County, about 250 miles east of Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed via...

The troubled Washington Post has begun implementing large-scale cutbacks, including eliminating its sports department and shrinking the number of journalists it stations overseas.

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

O'Hara enjoyed a six-decade career in TV and films playing sometimes over-the-top, but endearing characters. "I loved playing cocky untalented people," she told Fresh Air in 1992.

Trump justified withdrawing from the health alliance formed in 1948 based on what he viewed as the “mishandling” of the coronavirus pandemic and a failure to adopt changes.

One in three kindergarteners in Allegheny County were in a classroom with vaccination rates below the herd immunity threshold during the 2023-2024 school year.

One in three kindergarteners in Allegheny County were in a classroom with vaccination rates below the herd immunity threshold during the 2023-2024 school year.

One in three kindergarteners in Allegheny County were in a classroom with vaccination rates below the herd immunity threshold during the 2023-2024 school year.

Planned Parenthood has confirmed that its Downtown Pittsburgh location will close Jan. 23 and its Greensburg location will close Saturday. The Bridgeville clinic closed its doors in December. It’s unc...

The number of recommended childhood shots drops from 17 to 11.

In his inauguration speech, O’Connor acknowledged the city faces major challenges, including a city budget that faces lean years, even after City Council passed a tax hike in the waning hours of 2025.

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Tech companies looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly being voted down.

Jennifer Mazzocco was chosen over Alliyson Feldmann to represent Democrats in the Feb. 24 special election for the 42nd House District. She will face Republican Joseph Leckenby of Mt. Lebanon.

The military removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on US drug charges comes after Trump has freed other figures connected to narcotics trafficking.

The FDA has granted approval to a new gene therapy for a rare immune disorder, the maker of which is notably not a drug company, but an Italian charity.