A Lehigh University alum and his wife are donating $5 million to the Bethlehem school to create an endowed chair for its new College of Health. With the donation, Vincent and Ellen Forlenza will create the Ellen and Vincent Forlenza ’75 Chair in Health Innovation and Technology Endowment fund.

Two Lehigh Valley health care providers have made the first ever Newsweek list of Best Physical Rehabilitation Centers. Good Shepherd Rehabilitation of Allentown and Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest both made the Top 10 list of providers of inpatient rehabilitation care in Pennsylvania for 2020.

HNL Lab Medicine of Allentown, formerly known as Health Network Laboratories, has acquired NLM Laboratories, Northeastern Laboratory Medicine of Hazleton.

A Bethlehem doctor is facing a number of felony violations for over prescribing medicines such as oxycontin, oxycodone and fentanyl, in some cases to patients with known dependency issues.

Between March and July, Pennsylvania hospitals experienced $5 billion in losses resulting from a sharp decline in patient volume and despite federal relief fund payments.

Earlier this year, St. Luke’s Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine Dr. Raymond Durkin, MD, and Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery Dr. Stephen Olenchock, DO, inserted a newly FDA approved Sapien 3 ULTRA aortic valve into 76-year-old Luis Delarosa’s original diseased heart valve using a catheter introduced through a small incision in his groin.

The expansion of a medical device company in Limerick Township is expected create around 243 jobs in the Montgomery County region.

OraSure Technologies has developed a saliva collection device that’s been included in an FDA emergency authorization grant to a Syracuse medical diagnostic development company for COVID-19 lab testing.

A federal judge this week denied Gov. Tom Wolf’s motion to uphold limitations on in-person gatherings while administration officials work to appeal a Sept. 14 ruling that said some of the governor’s COVID-19 mitigation orders were unconstitutional.

While any Pennsylvanian who wants or needs a COVID-19 test can request one from providers and labs, the state announced the new four tier prioritization plan to help public health officials, health care providers and laboratories know who to test first.