Public Health

Prospect Medical Holdings is running into roadblocks selling its hospitals in Connecticut and Rhode Island. This spells trouble for Crozer Health in Delaware County.

City police and outreach workers continue to monitor the area of Kensington’s open-air drug market as harm reduction workers provide a bridge to support services.

The avian flu has spread to birds, foxes, sea lions, dairy cows, and a farmworker has been infected. All this is raising concerns about a potential pandemic.

Drug cocktails are causing users to have difficulty breathing and hallucinations, officials say.

Viet-Capacity has reached over 800 Vietnamese-speaking Philly residents with culturally tailored education around cardiovascular disease.

The school's rain gardens have proven effective at helping prevent raw sewage from overflowing into waterways.

The youth vote made a difference in the 2020 presidential election, and Democrats hope that issues like reproductive rights will bring them out again.

The county’s Office of Public Health will use survey results to shape priorities for the upcoming Community Health Improvement Plan.

Municipalities and utilities are required to create an inventory of lead pipes by October.

The proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III."

Local 54 of the Unite Here union says many of its 10,000 workers could lose their jobs and the means to support their families if smoking were banned.

Debate lasted more than three hours, at which point House Democrats used a motion to force a vote on the measure.

Health officials say the only way to confirm you have whooping cough is to get a diagnosis.

Younger people, between the ages of 15 and 24, have some of the highest rates of infection.

The designation requires that releases of PFAs and PFOs into soil or water be reported to federal, state or tribal officials if they meet or exceed certain levels.