Health & Science

How prepared is Philadelphia — and its residents — for the arrival of COVID-19? Pandemic experts weigh in on the city’s vulnerabilities, and the best ways to prep.

Inpatient care services may not totally disappear from Mercy Philadelphia Hospital, if the right partners can be found.

As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, there are steps you can take to protect yourself and your family.

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Earlier, City Councilmember David Oh introduced, to wide support among his outraged colleagues, a bill that will effectively ban such sites in Philadelphia.

The Federal Trade Commission, jointly with the Pennsylvania Attorney General, said it has been authorized to file a lawsuit in federal district court.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. is “very, very ready” for whatever the new coronavirus threat brings.

Mayor Kenney, who supports the sites, said they could save up to 75 people from overdose death each year.

No one has tested positive for the new coronavirus in Pennsylvania, but the state’s health secretary said Wednesday preparations are underway to deal with the serious illness.

Preliminary results show elevated levels of the so-called “forever chemicals” PFOS and PFOA near the installation in Delaware.

In the Philippines priests sprinkled ashes on the heads of the faithful to avoid physical contact.

Trump and members of the administration have been sending mixed messages about the virus.

A pipeline builder has dropped a controversial project that would have routed fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale into New York.

Temple is taking precautions at its Rome and Tokyo campuses as the number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus grows in Italy and Japan.

The CDC is urging Americans to start to prepare for the possibility of more aggressive measures to stop the spread of the new coronavirus in the United States.