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'Couldn't find a more perfect clinic': How former patients of a shuttered UPMC methadone center...

Jean pulled up to the Narcotic Addiction Treatment Program, a methadone clinic and behavioral health center in Wilkinsburg, about 6 a.m. Nov. 11. It was...

Local recovery center reacts to a just-signed xylazine law: 'This is going to be very bad'

The couple sat at a round table at Unity Recovery, a support center on the South Side, nibbling on chocolate croissants while Netflix's "The...

Digital footprints: Employing AI, parents are resurrecting children lost to fentanyl

The Facebook video depicted a girl with dyed blonde hair, lounging on a plush outside patio in gray sweatpants. Her legs were crossed, and she faced the...

Caught in fentanyl's unrelenting grip

'I'm very worried': Pittsburgh parents navigate UPMC's curtailing of gender services for ages 18...

The change follows a Supreme Court decision last week, United States v. Skrmetti, upholding a Tennessee law banning such care.

Parents and hospitals alike navigate shifting gender care access after Trump order

Gender affirming care for minors has increasingly been scrutinized by states, including a newly introduced bill in Pa.

Clothing that fits is an important aspect of transgender health

For Rainy Sinclair, it began with a blue scarf. This was the first "non-boy" item she gravitated toward early in her transition, the first...

Mt. Lebanon teen, who is trans, gets opportunity to tell her health care story to Gov. Shapiro

Gov. Josh Shapiro's participation in a new lawsuit, filed by 16 states and the District of Columbia, that seeks to block Trump administration...

Dobbs decision reverberates in Western Pennsylvania, one year later

Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protected the right to an abortion, was overturned on June 24, 2022.

Ozempic's double-sided coin: Amid skyrocketing popularity of GLP-1 drugs, a burgeoning lawsuit looms

Patients have found the medications to be life-changing in ways both positive and negative.