According to the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, the Lehigh Valley’s top industry by employment is health care and social assistance. More than 30,000 people work for the region’s two largest employers, Lehigh Valley Health Network and St. Luke’s University Health Network.

Kimberly Sheets, M.D., is the medical director of the Patient First centers in Allentown and Bethlehem.  She has been with Patient First since 2012, and has been practicing medicine in the Lehigh Valley since 2000.

Health care consumers are turning more and more to urgent care centers rather than traditional primary care offices. Patients are rushing to these walk-in centers, which offer medical care for minor emergencies and illnesses at a fraction of the cost of the traditional emergency room. LVB explores why.

Fathers discuss the benefits of paid parental leave for parents, regardless of gender.

Health care providers prescribing controlled substances are now required to do so electronically, unless they meet certain exceptions, according to Act 96, which is now in effect.

Lehigh Valley Health Network has opened the health network’s second Carbon County  ExpressCARE, a walk-in urgent care clinic, in Palmerton.

After operating out of a kiosk in the Palmer Park Mall in Palmer Township for more than a year, the co-owner of a CBD retailer opened last week in a larger, full-fledged space in the mall. Cannabidioil, or CBD, is an active ingredient in cannabis and part of an emerging industry. Eddie Salzman, co-owner of ...

  In Pennsylvania, four laboratories are often the last line of defense between the medical marijuana manufacturer and the consumer. And those labs’ role in public safety is becoming more apparent in light of the rise in lung-injury cases connected to the use of cannabis-based products in e-cigarette and vaping products. As of October 15, ...

The Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp. honored Bethlehem-based OraSure Technologies for its contributions to the life sciences industry and growth as a company that produces medical diagnostic tests.

Coordinated Health’s Allentown and Bethlehem hospitals are among the top 10 percent in the nation for patient safety according to a 2020 national report by Healthgrades, the Denver, Colorado -based online resource for information about physicians and hospitals.