Health & Wellness News

A panel of young people, ranging from middle-school-aged to college, shared their thoughts on mental health and health care in a conference organized by Lehigh Valley Reilly Children's Hospital. They all had one thing in common — direct experience.

The mayors of Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton will participate in group bike rides for Lehigh Valley Bike to Work Week.

If you get a special card in the mail, it means your mailperson can pick up food donations from your home, and take it straight to the food bank.

Lehigh Valley high school students had the opportunity to see firsthand what it's like to be a nurse. A nursing simulation was held during National Nurses Week.

A plan two years in the making is proving to be successful in Allentown. Nurses for the city and the district worked together to make sure students are safe from preventable disease.

Mattel has marketed a Barbie doll that represents those with Down syndrome.

The Palmer Recovery Center is the site of a free trauma-informed yoga class every Wednesday evening at 5:30 p.m. The class helps veterans with their mental health struggles.

The U.S. surgeon general issued a public health advisory about loneliness, isolation and lack of connection. The health consequences are enormous — equivalent by some estimates to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Lehigh Valley Mental Health Awareness Walk offers the public education and resources. Behavioral health needs are growing.

The $25,000 fund, offered by Lehigh and Northampton counties, will be used to support the schools' Aevidum program.

Lehigh Valley Health Network names two new presidents in their system. One is the President of the Lehigh Valley Hospital Cedar Crest campus and the Lehigh Region. The other is the President of the LVH–Muhlenberg campus and the Northampton Region.

Local health networks agree the virus is still here, still harmful. Another vaccine could help.

It will take 'years and years' to rebuild the immunities we didn't need when we were staying home.

To date there have been 19 confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. and around 500 worldwide.

Cancer survivors who have made a difference beyond their own illness will be celebrated.

Allergies are worse here because the surrounding mountains tend to hold the allergens in.

Several factors could contribute to an increase in teen drug deaths, officials say.

A perfect storm of inflation, housing market issues, and gas prices have created a climate in which people need food.

The FDA is working with manufacturers to try to increase production of infant formula.

The problem is getting worse, she says.

Nurses' Week always begins on May 6 to honor the birth of Florence Nightingale.

One hallway features a giant 'Lite Bright.'

Some states, like West Virginia and Ohio, have 'trigger bans' that would immediately ban the procedure.

A Whitehall native, he's one of the longest-surviving organ transplant recipients in the nation.