Health & Science

A Bucks woman's experience shows incarceration can make mental illness worse — and that a Pa. law meant to help people instead of putting them behind bars isn't working.

Gov. Tom Wolf signed an executive order last fall to join the cap-and-trade program.

Three days after delivering his “deadly” assessment in a private call with journalist Bob Woodward, Trump told a New Hampshire rally on Feb. 10, “It’s going to be fine."

Ventilator use atrophies the diaphragm, the muscle we use for breathing. The Lungpacer is designed to help coax it back to work, to enhance recovery.

As scientists race to develop a vaccine that proves "safe and effective," that doesn't mean it will prevent infection in everyone who gets it.

At this very moment a vast world exists that’s free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles away.

AstraZeneca said that globally some 18,000 people have received the vaccine as part of the trial.

So far at least, participation by people of color volunteers in coronavirus trials has increased only slightly, compared to usual low levels.

The study “definitively indicates — in a way that previous studies have struggled to do — the potential for transmission to family members."

A CDC study of 314 adults who had been tested for the coronavirus found that the positive cases were twice as likely to have dined at a restaurant within a two-week period.

Mile-long alternative route will avoid area where 8,000 gallons of drilling mud escaped.

People aged 14-18 accounted for 4% of the new positive cases, and residents between the ages of 19-24 made up 6% of new cases.

The benefits would have covered the cost of meals students normally receive at school. Pa. officials are outraged that the USDA rejected their bid.

Pa. Health Secretary Rachel Levine says health care providers, EMTs, National Guard members, firefighters and police again answer the call to save lives.

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