Health & Science

Japan's capital has exceeded 4,000 coronavirus infections for the first time — 4,058 cases, to be exact. That's a record high.

Four years ago, the government set a benchmark calling for every agency to commit to having no less than 12% of its employees made up of people with disabilities.

An ocean expedition exploring more than a mile under the surface of the Atlantic captured a startlingly silly sight this week: a sponge that looked very much like SpongeBob.

Turns out human sweat — our body's air conditioning system — is really pretty tame on the "yuck" scale of animal cooling methods.

For a while there, it seemed like things were finally heading back to normal. Now, not so much.

An unredacted version of data was sent in response to a Right-to-Know request regarding to COVID-19 cases and exposure in Montgomery County schools.

Delaware County has no health department, so Chester County handled its pandemic response until now. The new arrangement begins Aug. 1.

The state’s largest hospital system says all workers must have at least one dose by Sept. 21 if they want to keep their job.

New evidence shows the delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and may be more dangerous than other versions.

Case counts in Philadelphia more than tripled over the latter half of July.

Delaware issues fines to insurers for not treating people with mental health or substance abuse issues as fairly as they treat others.

Every time you go to see a new doctor, you have to fill out forms that ask your name, your age, your family history — and your race and ...

Is an equation most commonly used to predict kidney health unintentionally contributing to health disparities — and reinforcing racist thinking?

The complaint says the company made Black women a "central part" of its business strategy but failed to warn them about the potential dangers of its powder products.

While the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia had planned on waiting until the vaccine got “full FDA licensure,” the rising threat of the delta variant upended those plans.