Health & Science

Though behavioral health cases remain a small number of the overall emergency visits, the increase is causing concern.

N.J. will lift restrictions on outdoor gatherings and allow businesses to operate at full capacity with physical distancing. Here’s what you need to know.

The director of CHOP’s Vaccine Education Center rebuts the memes and other misinformation (zombies!) circulating out there on social media.

The contract with the incinerator operator expires in April 2022, setting up a showdown between Chester residents and Covanta.

Scientists, funeral directors and survivors say the real numbers of infections and deaths in India may be many multiples more than the reported figures.

Even as COVID-19 cases decrease and more Americans get vaccinated, the TSA is keeping strict regulations on mask-wearing when traveling domestically.

With older adults vaccinated, doctors say a growing share of COVID-19 patients are in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, as more contagious variants circulate.

Decades of underfunding, political interference and systemic race and gender bias have undercut trust among many government scientists.

FEMA will be providing American Sign Language interpreters, Certified Deaf Interpreters , and a Spanish-speaking deaf interpreter on site.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden's administration made the determination on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Thirty-nine percent of the nation's adult population has been fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Over the past year, public health officials went from being the people who nudge us not to smoke, not to drink and drive, and to eat our ...

As a powerful second COVID surge ravages their home country, those in the Philadelphia region with family in India cannot simply stand by and watch.

Emily Smith, an epidemiologist married to a preacher, has been able to reach evangelicals in a way others can’t, by meeting them where they are.

Pa.’s former Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, who now serves in that role at the federal level, visited the FEMA vaccination clinic in Center City.