Health & Science

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.'

The event is being held to get more Delawareans vaccinated. The rate is now 79% for all adults, but barely half of younger adults have gotten their first dose.

The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the smooth, carved limestone toilet was found in a rectangular cabin that was part of a sprawling mansion.

Frustrated residents and some providers describe high demand, but the city has no plans to add capacity.

J&J said it filed a request with the FDA to authorize boosters for people 18 and older who previously received the company's one-shot vaccine.

Although the water is a lot cleaner than it was then, activists say the cleanup is unfinished, as shown by the oxygen numbers for the past three summers.