Public Health

The workers were convinced that after nearly three years, their state representatives were ready to start the smoking ban on its way to approval.

There will be a store closing in Philadelphia, as well as ones in West Chester and Moorestown.

A CDC analysis of 2022 data finds that U.S. life expectancy is improving after being knocked backwards during the COVID emergency.

Philadelphia was one of 14 cities chosen for the NOAA mapping project.

Last year, the CDC reported 6,461 COVID-related deaths in New Jersey, or about five times the number of people who died from the flu in the Garden State.

District officials say they have reconfigured the ventilation system and air samples are not showing signs of the toxic substance.

Philly’s Community Doula Support Program launched in early 2020 in response to rising drug overdose deaths among pregnant and postpartum people.

Temple Health physicians are expanding a program to increase access to stool-based screening kits, an alternative to colonoscopies.

Crews started removing debris from an illegal dump site in the city’s Bergen Square neighborhood beginning last March after officials took over the property.

Anyone who did not order a batch of four COVID-19 tests in September can secure up to eight of them this time around starting Monday at COVIDtests.gov.

Though testing, screening, and treating lung cancer has improved in Pennsylvania, some residents are at risk of radon exposure, according to a report.

"We were building the plane while we were flying it,” said one consultant.

Joy of Sox celebrated with Prevention Point Philadelphia Wednesday after achieving the goal of reaching one million socks by October.

The Biden administration is requesting that Congress appropriate $7.5 billion for WIC in the 2024 fiscal budget, up from $6 billion last year.

7 women who were denied reproductive health care in Texas have joined an ongoing lawsuit.