When it comes to setting goals and joining the workforce, some students lag behind their peers for a whole host of reasons.

Rising rates of elder abuse in Pennsylvania are prompting state lawmakers and senior care organizations to call for the reinstatement of an act that helped guide hiring when it came to applicants with criminal backgrounds.

Lancaster Health Center's new mobile resource for substance use disorder is expected to bring Lancaster County's addiction services to the front doors of those who need it.

Former WellSpan Health president and CEO Kevin Mosser is joining law firm Saxton & Stump as a senior medical consultant, bringing with him 30 years of experience with the hospital system.

Penn State Health Medical Group bought a West Reading pediatric practice, hiring its 60 employees.

Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development wants to grow its endowment fund to $1 million to steel the center against any future dips in donations – and it has a plan for getting there.

A state advisory panel thinks patients in Pennsylvania should have access to food and drink infused with medical marijuana.

Land development plans for Penn State Health's 108-bed acute care hospital were conditionally approved Thursday by Hampden Township commissioners and is expected to receive final approval from the health system's leadership by the end of February.

The article written on business concerns and legalizing recreational use of marijuana (in the Jan. 25 issue of CPBJ) was well written but totally missed a larger point. Legalizing recreational marijuana will create a new set of unintended consequences and will force employers to change pre-employment drug testing.

Republican state lawmakers joined doctors on the steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol's main rotunda for a rally Wednesday to denounce a proposed rule change by the state Supreme Court they say would jeopardize Pennsylvania health care.

LifeChanges Boutique Inc., a provider of products and services for breast cancer patients in Hanover, has been purchased by a small Maryland-based chain

UPMC Pinnacle is closing its Bariatric and Metabolic Institute in Lancaster and plans to transition the institute's weight-loss surgeries and other services to its Harrisburg weight-loss center.

A Dauphin County office building occupied by an education and human services provider has been sold for $3.4 million to an investment company.

Central Pennsylvanian farmers could begin growing one of the top cash-producing crops in the country by 2020 if a pharmaceutical company picks the state to grow a plant used in malaria medication.

WellSpan Health said Monday it will begin work this year on a $45 million project to unite its cancer services in an expanded section of its Apple Hill Medical Center campus in York Township.