Public Health

Experts across the region are working to educate older adults on how they can prevent falling as they age.

Advocates say the state lacks transparency on school drinking water quality and attempts to remove lead contamination.

Schools in southeastern Pennsylvania fail short on testing and remediating mold and lead.

The new policy comes after two years of controversy involving public backlash, staff departures and high-level leadership changes.

In the summer of 1976, when 2,000 people came to Philadelphia for a national convention of the American Legion, a strange illness gripped ...

Using data from 3,492 patients, a ChristianaCare study found breast cancer hotspots in Wilmington and Middletown.

Mass layoffs at federal agencies have affected workers who were focused on increasing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

According to the surgeon general’s 2023 report on loneliness, a lack of social connection is as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Grab n’ Flow provides free, anonymous access to menstrual and postpartum products at three locations in South and West Philadelphia.

A look at the growing health challenges affecting farmers and people who produce our food.

Recent federal data shows COVID-19 is trending up in most states, with emergency department visits up among people of all ages.

Housing instability is driving ER visits and chronic illness. South Jersey health systems are stepping in with housing support and policy partnerships.

An extreme June heat wave that prompted a heat health emergency declaration killed five people in the city and had been made four times more likely by climate change.

The disease is a type of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria, which grow in warm water and spread in building water systems.

Firefighting foam containing toxic PFAS chemicals has contaminated drinking water supplies across the U.S.