Health

The Centers for Disease Control still must recommend how to use the Novavax vaccine before shots begin. The U.S. has bought 3.2 million doses.

The warning comes as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country.

Restaurant workers, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and veterans are among those targeted by a new anti-smoking campaign in Philadelphia.

Anthony Esposito has stepped into the role of chief executive officer of the four-hospital system in Delaware County.

The man is believed to have contracted the virus through intimate contact with another person. The virus can cause painful blisters and scarring.

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A resident traveling out-of-state is Camden County’s first confirmed monkeypox case. They are isolated at home and being treated.

Sweating is a weird biological function. Journalist Sarah Everts walks us through her taboo-busting book about the shame, stink, and strange science of sweating.

Funds are earmarked for children’s programs, suicide prevention, training more mental health professionals, crisis hotline and more.

Some Philadelphia parents who are eager to vaccinate their infants and toddlers must be patient a little while longer.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Temple Health, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and others will provide the funds over the course of the next two years.

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Philly officials are trying to spread the word that city health centers have the COVID-19 vaccine available for children under 5.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing that decades of scientific data prove that access to safe and legal abortion saves lives.

“It’s been hell,’’ said one gynecologist whose clinic has to had to turn most patients away in the wake of a new abortion ban.