Health

Religious rules guiding Catholic health care systems often mean their doctors can't prescribe contraceptives or perform tubal ligations — leaving patients with few options.

Americans will now have access to updated COVID booster shots. What should you keep in mind? CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has answers.

The pandemic hasn’t just changed how we live — it’s changed how we work, and how we feel about our jobs. One of the major r ...

The health department is offering grants to expand monkeypox vaccination services and outreach for populations who are at high risk for the disease.

Workers for two for-profit companies fear the bulk of the money won’t be used to alleviate longer working hours, expanded job responsibilities, and more.

The garden, open through September, honors loved ones who have died from opioid and substance use disorders, and calls attention to an ongoing addiction epidemic.

The hope is that the modified boosters will blunt yet another winter surge.

Americans' life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row and is now the lowest it's been since the 1920s. COVID-19 is driving the downward trend, according to CDC data.

The synthetic painkiller is 50 times stronger than heroin, and two milligrams can kill. Officials want users to know if it’s in their heroin, cocaine, and other drugs.

Families and communities in the Greater Philadelphia area will come together on Wednesday, August 31, to remember and honor loved ones lost to addiction.

A new program that allows naloxone to be mailed to those who want it is being credited with helping reduce the number of fatal overdoses in the state.

Monday's update ties the previous record for most cases reported in Philadelphia during a single week.

Prospect Medical Holdings, the parent company of the four-hospital system, wants to receive a management fee from Crozer Health after the nonprofit conversion.

The Health Department hasn’t said whether cases originated at any local bars or clubs. Now, staff are relying on signage and rubber gloves to stay safe.

Pa.’s highest court took the controversial step of reversing a rule aimed at tamping down a crisis of doctors leaving the state because of high medical malpractice insurance.