Public Health

This is the year that the COVID-19 pandemic was declared to be no longer a global health emergency.

Delawareans can connect to Code Purple resources via Delaware 211 by calling or texting 211.

This was the year many people finally exhaled. The pandemic was declared no longer an emergency. But viral threats are still here and there are lessons we haven't learned.

When a person’s heart has stopped due to cold, hospitals pump warm liquid into the space around their lungs to try to revive them.

Some 16,000 city workers have undergone special training to help people with sensory disorders.

The proposed deal between Jefferson Health and Lehigh Valley Health Network could close by the end of 2024, according to a joint announcement from the hospital systems.

The recalled pouches have been linked to dozens of illnesses in U.S. kids.

Members of the UAW union disrupted a meeting of a state Assembly committee that had been scheduled to take a preliminary vote on a bill to ban smoking in the casinos.

The court's action sets up a collision between the Food and Drug Administration's 23-year study and supervision of mifepristone.

Many casino workers have been pushing for three years to close a loophole in the state's public smoking law that specifically exempts casinos from a ban.

To get more people screened for colorectal cancer, Philadelphia doctors at Temple University turn to stool-based take home tests.

The state and a hospital system are sending a converted school bus laden with fresh food available for purchase as a temporary solution to the city's lack of a supermarket.

The network of nearly 2,000 Dominican grocers feel that the Department of Public Health is unfairly targeting their tobacco licenses.

Animal agriculture is huge contributor of greenhouse gas emissions. How harmful is our appetite for meat for the climate and what would it mean to cut back, even a little?

ACA open enrollment period began Nov. 1. The marketplaces are open to people who do not get insurance coverage through their jobs or other programs.