Public Health

They made it clear that while in-person school provides crucial benefits to children, "Public health agencies must make recommendations based on evidence, not politics."

As the coronavirus sweeps through congregate settings, calls have amplified to release immigrants held at family detention centers.

Corrections officials had eliminated an earlier outbreak at the state’s biggest state prison near Smyrna. Now its facility in Georgetown has become a hot spot.

Thursday night’s session offered 149 community members a presentation on the research effort announced last year. The Q&A went more than an hour.

A four member legislative panel, which would include two members of the Senate and two members of the Assembly, would have to approve any borrowing.

The commitment to ApiJect dwarfs the other needle orders the government has placed with a major manufacturer and two other small companies.

Why sex workers say the laws harm the most vulnerable among their ranks — and put their lives in danger.

The Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners decided to postpone the state’s bar exam a second time, and conduct it remotely over three days in October.

The city has walked back its Delaware travel advisory, but is still urging extreme caution.

The World Health Organization has issued a new scientific brief that summarizes what's known about the different ways the coronavirus can transmit.

In sharp contrast to abstinence-only education or “Just Say No,” America has been moving toward a public health approach that doesn ...

In Kensington, Rosalind Pichardo learned, people using drugs usually want to have Narcan on hand. Drug dealers were tougher to convince.

As the rides at Delaware’s only amusement park come back Friday night, visitors will find some new protocols that are even more stringent than others.

The city asked a Northern Liberties group to cancel an on-street dining event after an Old City man pulled out a gun during a fight over social distancing.

An increasing number of Ocean County municipalities along the New Jersey coast have adopted curfews for minors due to non-compliance with pandemic health regulations.