Public Health

With desperate pleas and social contracts failing to curb college parties, schools have turned to punitive consequences. But are the students the ones to blame?

Recovery can last months with many needing rehab and facing long-term damage.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday announced that restaurants will be able to open for indoor dining beginning Sept. 4 at 25% capacity, with social distancing between tables.

The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association voted 15-0 to postpone fall sports until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

There’s a push to make telehealth a permanent fixture of the government’s flagship health program. But it will take involvement by Congress to do away with old restrictions.

All instruction except “essential” classes will take place online through at least Sept. 11, after 103 Temple students tested positive for the coronavirus.

In issuing new guidance, city health officials say they’re trying to avoid outbreaks like those seen elsewhere.

It's happened with outbreaks going back for centuries: We blame "outsiders." Researchers have theories as to why. Public health groups have plans to stop it.

What if your body could corral an infection instead of eliminating it? Immunologists who see this in plants wonder what role it might play in asymptomatic COVID-19 infections.

Police say a suspect has been arrested in a shooting reportedly stemming from a dispute over social distancing restrictions at a northeast Philadelphia convenience store.

New Jersey health officials are urging the public to take precautions against mosquitoes amid the peak of the West Nile Virus season.

The city’s #MaskUpPHL campaign proved more popular than expected.

People are understandably worried about the risks of contagion and being trapped in an enclosed space for the duration of a trip.

Miller had been at the FDA only 11 days. Her appointment was viewed in public health circles as further politicization of the agency at a crucial time in the COVID-19 pandemic

The suspect was in the Wawa on East Erie Avenue near L Street when an on-duty security guard told him to keep a social distance of 6 feet, according to police.