Health

Three studies show smoke from Canadian wildfires led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms in the United States.

Readers are curious about the new variant, currently known a BA.2.86. Also: Lots of questions about boosters. Can you get it at the same time as a flu shot?

The operating losses at Jefferson Health are just one example of how COVID relief funds running low are showing up on the balance sheets of the region's nonprofit hospitals.

His appointment, effective Dec. 1, was announced to the school community on Tuesday.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first vaccine for expectant mothers to shield their babies from RSV.

Half of the people infected in the outbreak reported having contact with turtle with shells smaller than four inches wide. Owning pet turtles of that size is prohibited by fed

People and families who rely on food stamps experienced a 21% increase in food insufficiency when pandemic-era benefits ended.

This summer, with wildfire smoke suffocating swaths of North America, we've been warned to stay indoors to avoid poor quality air.

Studies revealed that dozens of children and young adults were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma and other forms of cancer in a four-county area outside Pittsburgh.

Philadelphia public health officials say they will monitor hospitalizations and wastewater data to identify possible increases in COVID-19 activity.

In the last week of June, some 6,000 people in the United States were hospitalized for COVID. In the last week of July, that number had climbed to 9,000.

For the first time on record, the firearm suicide rate for Black teens is higher than for white teens, according to preliminary data from the CDC.

Heart attack deaths spiked early in the pandemic, erasing years of progress in battling cardiovascular disease.

Postpartum depression affects as many as 1 in 7 women in the U.S., though there are just two treatments approved for it.

The finding could lead to a better understanding of a condition that affects millions.