Public Health

Temple University students can no longer wear cloth masks when they return to classes on Monday. Students who do not have an upgraded mask can pick one up on campus.

The new oral meds are in short supply around Philly, but doctors aren’t prescribing what’s available. Timing and risks are part of the equation.

"Omicron literally took us out in the span of a week," says Brian Moreland, producer of the play Thoughts of a Colored Man.

Some conservatives are taking aim at policies that allow doctors to consider race as a risk factor when allocating scarce COVID-19 treatments.

Fauci said the hope is the level of COVID infection will be below what he calls an 'area of control' in the future.

Cases are spiking on college campuses because, despite the rapid spread of the omicron variant, most schools are beginning their spring semesters in-person.

Researchers are working fast to figure out what's going on and how to improve the tests.

Rutgers scientists say exposure to the chemicals, found in plastics, nail polish and fast food, may disrupt the hormone that signals when to give birth.

A health communications expert has developed a free online course to help people talk to those who are vaccine hesitant — and to fight misinformation with empathy.

More than a thousand health professionals are calling on Spotify to crack down on COVID-19 falsehoods aired on the podcast of the company's most popular host.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has indefinitely postponed the vaccine mandate for the city’s unionized employees.

A federal judge in Texas has blocked President Biden's vaccine mandate for federal workers nationwide. The requirement had been in place since November.

The phone number — 1-800-232-0233 — follows the launch earlier this week of a federal website to order the tests.