Health & Science

Bidding a beloved animal farewell is hard. Knowing when it’s time can be even harder.

Part of the delay in delivering results may not be because of overwhelming test volume at labs, but slow communication to patients.

Skyrocketing deaths and infections there are threatening to force hospitals to ration care and essentially decide who lives and who dies.

Someone in Dauphin County tested positive for the variant “after known international exposure,” the Department of Health said in a news release.

New Jersey officials have announced the start of the next phase of vaccinations against the coronavirus with police and fire professionals.

Phase 1A health care workers who live or work in Montgomery County were inoculated by appointment only at the community college in Blue Bell.

Congress has expanded eligibility for SNAP, Secretary Miller urges Pennsylvanians to apply.

About 100 emergency medical workers have gotten a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. But about half offered the vaccine have declined, officials said.

Health experts agree that, to end the pandemic, the world needs to immunize a large percentage of Earth's population. And that population needs to be distributed evenly.

Many patients who are hospitalized for COVID-19 are discharged with symptoms such as those associated with a brain injury.

Suppression testing would require the state to increase daily testing nearly four times over, but that’s the only way to use it as a tool to actually slow down the virus.

Of the 149 projects granted money from the Growing Greener program, 43 in south-central Pennsylvania will get $12 million.

The agreements bring pay increases and staffing adjustments for PASNAP members at four facilities in Delaware County.

The rule goes into effect on Wednesday and applies to all future EPA regulations.

The new COVID-19 relief package has funding for vaccine distribution but the money hasn’t arrived yet.