Health & Science

The CDC invited Philly and 4 states to help develop U.S. strategy for distributing a vaccine. After a brief consult, a playbook was released nationwide.

The union that represents SEPTA workers fought for a $500,000 death benefit — a payout that New York’s MTA provided over the summer.

Pa. health officials abandoned their urgency in implementing a faster process, leaving them ill-prepared to accurately report death data when the pandemic arrived.

You can now pick your own produce when you visit the stands.

Testing and Contact Tracing Director Michael Huff said the tiered approach to testing will prioritize the most vulnerable.

The program is the latest push by Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration to combat the opioid epidemic, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact public health and the economy.

People of color get sick and die of COVID-19 at rates higher than whites and higher than their share of the population.

Google and Apple teamed up on using smartphones to track COVID infections. But the systems are only available in a few states, used by a tiny percent of the population.

Mariner East construction at three sites that require drilling through porous limestone can shift from horizontal directional drilling to open trench.

It will be one of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccine studies so far, testing in 60,000 volunteers in the U.S.

The Recovery Center will begin with online sessions, but it offers a plethora of resources to help residents fight substance abuse.

The in-home tests are designed especially to help older residents who are at higher risk of infection and may be hesitant to go to a public testing site.

There are many potential hurdles between Philly Latinos and a COVID-19 test — even though they're contracting the virus at high rates.

Scientists say human impacts are clear.

Over 200,000 people have now died from COVID-19 in the U.S., reaching what was once the upper limit of some estimates for the American death toll.