Health Care

Colleges across the U.S. are starting to require booster shots, extend mask mandates, and in some cases revert to online classes as they brace for the new omicron variant.

The Wolf administration requested that FEMA send strike teams to hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and ambulance companies in the hardest-hit areas of the state.

“We're making every effort to make sure the current surge doesn't affect our ability to take care of non-COVID patients.”

The state is one of only seven that do not require reimbursement for virtual visits, meaning patients must deal with uneven insurance coverage.

Demand is high, and appointments in and around Philadelphia are at a premium right now. But super vaccination clinics probably won’t be back.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to empower private citizens to enforce a ban on the manufacture and sale of assault weapons in the state.

Even as cases continue to crop up, the NFL and NHL have no current plans to follow the NBA’s lead of requiring an additional dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Culinary students from Delcastle Technical High School deliver 12,000 cookies to ChristianaCare workers amid the latest COVID spike.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state’s ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect.

Tower Health says a deal with Texas-based hospital management firm Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC has fallen apart and left it no options.

Statewide, an average of 3,900 people per day have been hospitalized with COVID-19 over the past two weeks, up 50% in a month.

Health Commissioner Dr. Judy Persichelli confirmed that the state lab had conducted sequencing on three suspected cases and the results are pending.

Diagnoses in people who inject drugs were rising before the pandemic. Health officials worry now about spread among people who don’t know their HIV status.

With omicron on everyone’s minds, people are concerned about breakthrough infections. How do you proceed if you think you’ve had one?

New York has announced three more cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, bringing to eight the number of state cases linked to the new variant.