Health & Science

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said organizing vaccination events at small health centers will help build community trust in the immunization.

The orders target federal subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels and halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters.

Roused by reporting on the startup’s questionable practices, lawmakers beginning to speak out.

By promoting solar, agency hopes to convince state it's also cutting nitrate emissions.

Pennsylvania Democrats are breaking rank to publicly express misgivings about the Wolf administration’s efforts to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine.

An analysis shows that more than 300 senior care homes did not have a scheduled vaccine clinic as of Jan. 17, while hundreds more weren’t covered by a federal partnership.

The administration says it plans to buy an additional 100 million doses each from both Moderna and from Pfizer, which has a vaccine with its German counterpart BioNTech.

Penn, Temple and Einstein are pivoting from Phase 1A, when they vaccinated their patient-facing staff, to Phase 1B, their most at-risk patients.

After PFC turned away people seeking vaccinations that day, friends of CEO Andrei Doroshin say they saw a Snapchat photo of him appearing to administer vaccine off-site.

Professor Roy Richard Grinker discusses how mental illness became stigmatized in America and our progress toward a culture more accepting of mental health differences.

During most of the time the group collected names on its COVIDReadi site, it did so without terms and conditions or a privacy policy.

As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.

The Health Department says it’s planning a new mass vaccination clinic.

New Castle County will become the newest National Health Corps site with AmeriCorps volunteers working to respond to COVID-19 and address inequities in health care.

A Black mother in New Jersey is seven times more likely than a white mother to die from maternity-related complications, according to the report.