Health & Science

City health officials outlined a plan for identifying patients with symptoms and said as the situation changes, so will the response.

Pennsylvania’s third-largest school district made an overnight decision to close five schools after a COVID-19 scare. It could be a taste of what’s to come.

Philadelphia officials provided an update on the city’s coronavirus preparations at 2 p.m. at City Hall. There are no confirmed ...

The bill provides federal public health agencies with money for vaccines, tests and potential treatments and helps state, local governments prepare and respond to the threat.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday morning the state's first two cases of coronavirus, one in Delaware County and one in Wayne County.

Coronavirus exposure closes five schools in the Central Bucks School District out of an “abundance of caution,” no cases in Pa. confirmed yet.

One’s tried and true. The other’s promising, but uncharted in the long term. Which would you choose?

Forget farm-to-table, a new pilot program is taking oyster shells from table to bay. Recycled shells will become living shorelines and new oyster habitat.

Medicine is always changing. New treatments become available. Old ones become obsolete. But how does a treatment become established? How ...

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Health officials are working to control a mumps outbreak among school children in New Castle County, Del.

Acting Gov. Oliver announced immediate restrictions on state-related business travel, international and short trips, such as to New York and Philadelphia.

A man in his 30s who is hospitalized in Bergen County has New Jersey’s first positive test for COVID-19, Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement Wednesday.

Now that test kits are more available, there has been some concern fear of cost might deter underinsured or uninsured Americans from getting tested.

If approved, the lead concentration allowed on the first 2 feet of sites like the PES refinery complex would rise from 1,000 parts per million to 2,500 ppm.