Public Health

Driving the switch is a decrease in visitors and a Delaware County goal of reaching people without transportation access.

Places of worship have deep roots in local communities. All Faiths Vaccination Campaign is leveraging those relationships to address racial inequities.

The agency approved an Alzheimer's drug called Aduhelm against the wishes of nearly every member on the panel.

The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the bill unanimously, at Wolf’s urging.

U.S. regulators are allowing the release of 10 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine from a troubled Baltimore factory, but many other doses can't be used.

Last year, Richard Gordon, who is now the principal of Paul Robeson High School for Human Services in West Philadelphia, was named the National Principal of the Year.

Alaska is the sole state where average rural rates of fully vaccinated people have grown faster than urban rates since April 19.

Along with the trauma and isolation of this past year, some students also found a new, and urgent, sense of community.

Republicans said terminating the emergency order was what Pennsylvanians demanded when they granted the legislative branch new powers during the May primary.

SEPTA lifted capacity limits on transit last week, yet signs of social distancing mandates remain. Not everyone is unhappy that the habit could survive.

The information, contained in an active Google spreadsheet, includes the names of people who were potentially infected with the coronavirus.

Vaccinated Philadelphians will no longer need to wear masks indoors, except in certain settings, like public transportation, schools, city courts.

COVID-19 vaccines are effective and state officials have the data to prove it. Of more than two million residents who were fully vaccinated, a small fraction got the virus.

All the states with the highest adult vaccination rates went to President Biden in the 2020 election. But the vaccine divide is not just about politics.

At the Please Touch Museum Tuesday, Philadelphia and Pa. health officials discussed safety guidelines for children who can’t get the vaccine yet.