Posts by Philadelphia County Medical Society

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting pharmacies in the Philadelphia region to check any inventory they purchased from 52nd Street Pharmacy since January 1, 2017. FDA is concerned…

  USciences is offering a live, four-hour medical cannabis training course on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to allow physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners to…

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) has identified five laboratory-confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease among residents of Northeast Philadelphia’s Torresdale neighborhood. All have had illness onset since mid-August and…

Each year, an average of 170 infants in Philadelphia are born to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected women. Without medical intervention, 40% of perinatally exposed infants will develop HBV infection,…