WASHINGTON -- Flanked by a panoply of health reform advocates in a packed Capitol meeting room i Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid showcased the sweeping plan he had unveiled the day before to overhaul the nation's health insurance system and expand coverage to millions. (Yesterday)

Standing in ponchos and under a canopy of umbrellas, a few hundred people gathered in the rain in front of UPMC Braddock yesterday to decry UPMC's decision to shutter the hospital there, hoping their messages -- conveyed over a crackly portable speaker -- would sway the medical giant to change its mind about closing the facility. (Yesterday)

WASHINGTON -- Women can delay their first Pap test for cervical cancer until they turn 21, and many can wait longer to go back for follow-up screenings, according to new guidelines released today by a major medical group. (Yesterday)

More than 150 Mon Valley residents, health care activists and elected officials gathered at Braddock Carnegie Library last night, where Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato hosted a public hearing on UPMC's decision to shutter its hospital there at the end of January. (11/19/2009)

Ambulatory surgical centers, free-standing facilities where patients can go for minor procedures, continue to proliferate in Pennsylvania. (11/19/2009)