After months of frustration and misdiagnoses — slipped disc, arthritis, depression, psychosomatic illness — the woman finally was freed from her debilitating backache. The cause of her pain?
Living in a cramped one-room apartment with her four children, the woman had been sleeping in a bathtub.
And who solved this medical mystery?
A nurse practitioner — someone who [...]

To help improve the lives of low-income, first-time parents and their children, the Department of Public Welfare today said 37 counties will share nearly $12 million in grants to support the Pennsylvania Nurse-Family Partnership program.
The Nurse-Family Partnership program provides low-income, first-time parents with support from pregnancy through the child’s first years so that both [...]