Bethlehem’s OraSure Technologies Inc. has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Emergency Use Authorization of its COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.

Legend Properties has received approval to begin construction on Phase I of an ambitious mixed-use development in Smithfield Township to be known as Smithfield Gateway.

Bio Med Sciences Inc. is more than tripling its size as it moves its headquarters and manufacturing from its current space on Morris Court to a more than 40,000-square-foot space at 999 Postal Road in Hanover Township, Lehigh County.

Former Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary Rachel Levine was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as the Biden Administration’s assistant secretary of health.

Meg Snead, Wolf’s secretary of policy and planning, is set to take the role of Department of Human Services (DHS) Secretary when Teresa Miller leaves the position on April 30.

Tower Health has named Dr. Suzanne Wenderoth executive vice president, CEO of Physician Enterprise and chief medical officer for the seven-hospital system.

Lehigh Valley Health Network’s effort to get out the COVID-19 vaccine now has some new wheels – thanks to a donation from Bennett Toyota in Allentown.

The findings of a study commissioned by the Berks County COVID-19 Response Task Force will serve as both a contemporary planning tool and a historical document, according to Kevin Murphy, president of the Berks County Community Foundation, which partnered with the United Way of Berks County and the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance in August to form the task force.

There seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel with the COVID-19 pandemic as vaccine rates begin to pick up in Pennsylvania. Still, many are frustrated with the slow pace up until this point – especially in getting vaccines to those working with the public who aren’t health care workers or teachers in group 1a of the state’s vaccine roll out.

Phoenix, Arizona-based Harvest Health & Recreation Inc. has opened a new medical marijuana dispensary in Whitehall.