Robert Kline, 52, of Germansville, was awarded $8.5 million after a jury agreed that doctors at St. Luke’s Hospital in Allentown failed to properly notify him of a mass growing in his bladder.
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Health Care
St. Luke’s Miners receives $1M grant to fight opioid crisis
The Health Resources and Services Administration or HRSA, has awarded St. Luke’s Miners Campus a $1 million grant to help combat the opioid crisis.
Read More »Epilepsy monitoring unit opens at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest
An epilepsy monitoring unit or EMU has opened within the Neuroscience Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital−Cedar Crest.
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St. Luke’s summer job program gives at-risk teens a look at health careers
This summer 20 high school students participated in the Health Career Exploration Program at St. Luke’s University Health Network, which introduces rising seniors in the Allentown and Bethlehem school districts to careers in health care.
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In agreement with state, cannabis company gives up dispensary permits
Harvest, a cannabis company, has signed an agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Health that will stop the opening of two marijuana dispensaries in the state.
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Pa.’s medical marijuana industry nearly tripled in 2019 
Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana industry has made $350 million in sales since the state’s first dispensary opened in February 2018, nearly tripling in five months.
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Diagnostic breast imaging experts coming to St. Luke’s Gnaden Huetten campus
Diagnostic breast imaging experts will be now be available at the St. Luke’s University Health Network’s Gnaden Huetten Campus on Fridays.
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A tale of two health networks: How health care became the biggest employer in the Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley Health Network and St. Luke’s University Health Network are the two biggest employers in the Lehigh Valley. Chances are, if you live in the area, someone you know works for one of these health care giants. But just how did the health care industry become the largest employer in the Lehigh Valley? LVB talked to experts to find out.
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Look good, feel good: Paula Young of Young Medical Spa is a leader in the cosmetic medicine industry
Paula Young, co-owner of Young Medical Spa, opens up to Lehigh Valley Business. She talks with us about the pressure on women to look good, the most popular cosmetic procedures, and raising a son and maintaining a marriage in the midst of a busy career.
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Opioid deaths in Pa. decreased in 2018
Gov. Tom Wolf has announced in a press release that opioid drug overdose deaths in Pennsylvania fell last year. Wolf, citing data from the Drug Enforcement Agency, said opioid overdose deaths were 18 percent lower in 2018 than in 2017. “This is a good piece of news in our ongoing fight,” Wolf said. “However, new ...
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