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Study to be presented during 2013 ATS Special Session: 'Care at the End of Life: Room for Improvement, Ideas for Change' PHILADELPHIA-The decision to limit life support in patients in the intensive care unit appears to be significantly influenced by physician practices and/or the culture of the hospital, suggests new findings from researchers at ... (more)

Other than the occasional patch of fog, the morning commute around the Harrisburg area is running smoothly as of 6:30 a.m., according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

His ordeal has a happy ending, but what an ordeal it's been: A near fatal encounter with a deadly flower; renal failure; four weeks of kidney dialysis and, finally, a $15,000 kidney transplant at the University of Pennsylvania.

The struggle for equal human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Pennsylvania has seen significant developments this month.

Gov. Tom Corbett is recommending changes to a set of education regulations that have been criticized by both Democrats and conservatives.

The research was conducted by assistant professor Ertugrul Cubukcu and postdoctoral researcher Fei Yi, along with graduate students Hai Zhu and Jason C. Reed, all of the Department of Material Science and Engineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Pennsylvania American Water officials today hosted the Department of Community and Economic Development Senior Advisor Mike Cortez, Public Utility Commissioner Wayne Gardner, Department of Environmental Protection Deputy Secretary Kelly Heffner, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and other dignitaries to mark the completion of major ... (more)

A former Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare caseworker will spend five to 10 years in state police for firing 17 shots at state troopers who surrounded his house after he allegedly refused to come out when they responded to a drunken domestic dispute in October.

Recent Census Bureau projections show that immigration rates are up in the Unites States, while the number of births have declined.

Scattered records kept by the state Department of Environmental Protection offer one answer to a key question in a new age of fossil fuel extraction in Pennsylvania: How many water supplies have been damaged by drilling? The Times-Tribune requested the letters and enforcement orders that might best account for the number of drilling-disrupted water ... (more)

Oil and gas development damaged the water supplies of at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to state records obtained by a newspaper.

State environmental regulators determined that oil and gas development damaged the water supplies for at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to a cache of nearly 1,000 letters and enforcement orders written by Department of Environmental Protection officials and obtained by The ... (more)

It is vanishingly rare for an experimental treatment to wipe out advanced, recurrent cancer, then keep the disease from coming back.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Greater Pittsburgh Motorcycle Safety Council held a press conference on Sunday outside PNC Park to stress the importance of sharing the road with motorcycles.

A Pennsylvania native, Kathy Strunk says spring has her craving rhubarb and asparagus, which are bountiful this time of year in Pennsylvania.

Three cheers for the emergency first responders, PennDOT, its engineers, draftsmen, work crews and the many construction workers who reacted almost immediately to the I-81 bridge catastrophe in Susquehanna Township.

The EAC was created in the aftermath of the disastrous elections of 2000 as part of the Help America Vote Act.

More Pennsylvanians went to work in April, swelling the ranks of the state's employed to over 6 million workers.

After years of development, a new set of educational standards for Pennsylvania has run into late-in-the-game opposition along unusual political lines.