Health & Science

On Thursday, Pfizer and BioNTech formally applied for emergency use of a lower dose for 5- to 11-year-olds. Here’s what to expect:

Jessie Flynn decided she’d had enough. For years, multiple sclerosis had taken more and more away from her life — her ability to move ...

After more than 15 years of multiple sclerosis, a patient travels to Mexico for a risky, experimental treatment called HSCT, against her doctor's advice.

The inability to hire and retain workers — in part driven by low wages due to low government reimbursement rates — was already a crisis, but now threatens to collapse.

More than 140,000 children in the U.S. have lost one or both parents, or a grandparent caregiver to COVID-19, according to a new study.

Now the FDA will have to decide if there’s enough evidence that the shots are safe and will work for younger children like they do for teens and adults.

Pennsylvania has 5,600 miles of dead waterways, polluted by the coal mining industry. Ben Kalina’s "A River Reborn" shows how one was revived.

Delaware County syphilis cases are at the highest they’ve been in 20 years.

Not wanting to lose momentum, government leaders and employers are looking at strengthening and expanding vaccine requirements.

Dr. Valerie Arkoosh called getting a flu shot this year “more important than ever” to keep families safe amid the ongoing pandemic.

Health care workers, and university faculty, staff, and students, must have at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by Oct. 15. Here’s what else you need to know.

The U.S. Education Department said it would temporarily relax some of the program's rules. The changes could lead to loan cancellation for tens of thousands of borrowers.

The environmentalists urged the DRBC to almost double its required oxygen standard so that resident and migratory fish would be better able to thrive in the river.

As the call for boosters intensifies, Camden County is not planning to use the college mega-site it used the first time around because students are in class.

Syukuro Manabe’s work ‘laid the foundation for the development of current climate models.'