Health

The clinic will offer primary care and behavioral health in North Philadelphia, with an emphasis on preventative medicine.

The pandemic has resulted in a critical shortage of blood donations. As COVID cases trend downward, Philly health officials are urging people to give blood.

U.S. health advisers have endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for younger children.

When a Facebook researcher suggested disabling comments on vaccine posts until the platform could do a better job of tackling anti-vaccine messages, that proposal was ignored.

Despite falling case numbers, there are some troubling indicators, including the onset of cold weather, which sends people indoors, where the virus can more easily spread.

The U.S. is expected to begin vaccinating children under 12 sometime next month, if the FDA clears low doses of the Pfizer vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds.

FDA and CDC authorized the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson boosters, along with Pfizer’s. Here’s what you need to know now that they’re all available.

Breast screening rates have dropped during the pandemic in communities of color. A health system is bringing mammograms directly to women in need.

Federal scientists say kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine appear highly effective at preventing symptomatic infections among elementary school children.

‘Period poverty’ is the inability to access menstrual hygiene products and waste management services.

The shots could begin early next month — with the first children in line fully protected by Christmas — if regulators give the go-ahead.

More than 70% of Philadelphians are vaccinated, and the health department aims to reach the remaining third.