Health & Science

Omicron's race across the globe has amped up concerns about long COVID, which some estimates suggest affects a third of COVID-19 survivors.

The Biden administration is providing free at-home swab tests for COVID-19. But they come with significant barriers for the blind community.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has approved a new model for analyzing wildlife that would guide quotas beyond just male crabs.

The county will lose yet another emergency room, the second in a month, and its only inpatient behavioral health facility on Monday.

Now omicron is estimated to account for nearly all the virus circulating in the nation.

A Dec. 28 letter says Tower failed to provide Chester County Emergency Medical Services with “accurate, ongoing communication.”

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For a Philadelphia physician, rest seemed out of the question during the early part of the pandemic. But she learned an important lesson about the need to slow down.

Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC is asking a Chester County judge to put a pause on Tower Health’s closure of Brandywine and Jennersville hospitals.

Officials said the funds will help address the critical need to boost a skilled labor force in Philadelphia as the life sciences industry grows.

The mandate is first taking effect first in jurisdictions that didn’t challenge the requirement in court.

The company announced Wednesday that the first participant had received a dose. Earlier this week, competitor Pfizer began a similar study of its own reformulated shots.

COVID-19 numbers are down 75% from two weeks ago, suggesting the winter surge has peaked. But the pandemic is not over, officials warn.

Republicans' faith in science is falling as Democrats rely on it even more, with a trust gap in science and medicine widening substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conservationists are concerned the plan would lead to overharvesting, and threaten the endangered red knot bird, which relies on horseshoe crab eggs for sustenance.