Health

Journalists have compiled instances of favoring international staff over local staff and treating people of color inequitably. A grassroots group of staffers agrees.

Public pressure on the new health commissioner to reverse a reinstatement of the Philly mask mandate ignored vaccination rates in minority communities.

U.S. health officials are now looking into more than 100 possible cases of a mysterious and severe liver disease in children, including five deaths.

On this episode, we’ll explore motherhood and the changes it brings.

In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended prioritizing the Moderna and Pfizer shots over J&J’s because of its safety issues.

The team responsible for community outreach during the 2020 Census has reached a significant milestone since its shift to get Philadelphians vaccinated.

Home health care workers are among the lowest paid, shifting the burden of long-term care to aging and overstressed family members or assisted living centers.

The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems.

In many parts of the U.S., case numbers are going up, and much of that increase is being driven by subvariants of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Health care workers rallied alongside elected officials and community members just outside Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland.

More than two years into the pandemic, state leaders gathered with friends and a family who’ve lost loved ones to remember the victims of COVID-19.

NJ’s top trauma centers are laying out plans for the $550 million lawmakers sent them.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says it is putting all its guidance under the microscope to eliminate “race-based” medicine and resulting health disparities.

Eight townships — Springfield, Tinicum, Ridley, Upper Chichester, Aston, Darby, Marple, and Middletown — have joined forces to be exempt from county health inspections.

The patient is an inmate involved in the culling of poultry that was presumptively infected with H5N1 bird flu at a commercial farm.