Harvest Health & Recreation, a Phoenix-based medical marijuana company, opened its seventh dispensary in Pennsylvania this week.

Sidero Bioscience LLC, a Hershey-based clinical-stage biotech company, has executed a licensing agreement with a Singapore life sciences company to sell an iron deficiency treatment in India and Southeast Asia.

Rite Aid remodeled its Newberry Township, York County store to showcase a new store concept meant to bring in new target demographics.

Pennsylvania’s fire, rescue and EMS companies will be eligible for $50 million worth of grant funding through the Office of State Fire Commissioner, Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Thursday.

Since Highmark Inc. began offering its value-based reimbursement program for primary care physicians in 2017, the Pittsburgh-based insurer says it helped its members avoid more than $1 billion in emergency department visits and hospital admissions.

UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg is poised to open a $17 million, 26-bed pediatric inpatient unit next month.

Central Penn College students now have access to a variety of health care services including COVID-19 testing thanks to a partnership between the East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County-based college and UPMC Pinnacle Medical Group.

Steve Schedler joins the Samaritan Counseling Center as its new executive director during a year of nonstop transition, including the pivot to fully online services during the pandemic.

The process used by the Wolf administration to exempt some businesses from the March 19 pandemic closure mandates was “inconsistent” and “subjective,” according to state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale.

Middletown-based senior lifestyle and health-care services organization Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries announced this week that its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer will take over as president and CEO on Jan 1.

In preparation for its Medicare product rollout for 2020, Highmark Health ensured that it had the infrastructure to allow all of its Medicare consumers the ability to receive care through telehealth.

The Coronavirus has quickened the pace of consolidation in one of the last large cottage industries -- dentistry. The intimate nature of the relationship between a dentist and a patient, along with the long-standing tradition of independence in the profession, have allowed solo practitioners, until recently, to remain in the majority.

Gov. Tom Wolf established a number of councils and commissions on Friday that his administration says will help the state address comprehensive reforms in both physical and behavioral health and make health care easier to access for Pennsylvanians.

While people in the college-age group experience the same mental health issues as the rest of the population, the way they experience such issues may be different, according to Whitney Quinlan, clinical psychology postdoctoral resident at WellSpan Philhaven.

Penn State Cancer Institute’s newest associate director for clinical research is expected to help lead the institute as it continues to expand clinical trials and research new cancer treatment drugs.