Health Care

The Philadelphia Health Department says it’s continuing to place orders for more rapid at-home testing kits, but supply is constrained nationwide.

Understaffed hospitals are already coping with increased patient demand heading into the holidays. They have few options to expand if omicron creates a huge new wave of COVID.

Pennsylvania officials are getting ready to roll out the changes when a federal law to ban surprise medical billing takes effect in January.

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The state has partnered with independent pharmacies to put shots in the arms of vulnerable people at their homes.

The sketch comedy show announced Saturday afternoon that the night’s episode would tape without a live audience and with only limited cast and crew.

Participants were limited to two free kits, each of which contains two tests. The goal is to increase testing amid the current COVID surge.

Construction is set for late 2022. The center aims to bring gene therapy experts together to treat conditions like blindness, neurodegenerative disease.

The variant has infected four people in New Castle County, Delaware and one person in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

You do not need an email address and no credit card is required. Officials say the new program is to increase access and availability of tests.

Residents can collect two free rapid COVID-19 test kits per person at Saturday morning’s vaccine clinic at Community Academy of Philadelphia.

While it’s not clear how the student contracted COVID, and minors tend to have much milder coronavirus symptoms on the whole, the current wave of new cases has many on edge.

It's not clear how much the study change will delay the quest for vaccinating the youngest children.

Officials said Thursday that a scientific review supported broadening access and allowing more pharmacies — including mail-order services— to distribute the medication.