Public Health

Mosquito and tick bites can put people at risk for contracting Lyme disease, West Nile virus and alpha-gal syndrome.

At a Philadelphia panel on HIV and health equity, experts pointed to gaps in education, funding and access to care.

Amid a backdrop of steadily rising temperatures, the city's average from March through May tied a record set in 1921.

County officials have collected two positive samples for the disease from wastewater this month.

The city suspended EMR’s junkyard license for the facility where the latest fire occurred, and will reevaluate the suspension next month.

A heat wave may be the most obvious health threat. But infectious diseases can spread in a crowd.

Women in the study who were obese and taking GLP-1 weight loss medications were 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than other women.

The May fire was the latest of over a dozen at facilities run by EMR in Camden since 2020. The suspension will be reevaluated in early July.

COVID-19 supplies and other public health services at four resource hubs will move to new community action centers at different city locations.

The order comes after city, county and state elected officials called on government agencies to shut EMR’s Camden operations.

A spokesperson for Camden’s mayor said the city is “undertaking all necessary legal research to move forward” with revoking EMR’s city licensure.

The statement comes days after a fire at one of EMR’s scrap metal facilities — one of more than a dozen over the past five years.

The company’s statement came after city and county officials called on EMR to “fully cease” operating due to the latest fire.

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The new heat sensors and water cannons were part of an agreement EMR signed with the city after a four-alarm blaze at its facility in 2025.