Public Health

A committee had its first hearing on a measure requiring hospitals to provide advance notice and a detailed closure plan to the city’s health department.

New Jersey will have more than $13 million to combat harmful algal blooms that plagued major recreational waterbodies last summer.

A health expert said every school in the city that has plumbing joined by lead solder should stop allowing children to use drinking fountains immediately.

The Trump administration's plan to ban most flavored vaping products has stalled out, at least for the moment.

When Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in 2009, it gave government regulators an important new weapon in its battle against Big Tobacco.

A bill pending in the New Jersey legislature seeks to keep New Jersey on daylight saving time year-round.

District officials thought they had a plan to deal with exposed asbestos at a North Philly school — until parents rose up against it.

As the number of teens and pre-teens vaping and using e-cigarettes continues to spike, some 70 hospitals across the state pool information and diagnoses.

Health concerns are paramount. As those are being addressed, business interests seem to be weathering the storm

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons has quietly started testing all inmates with hep C and curing those who stay long enough to complete treatment.

A new report finds that Prevention Point Philadelphia averted more than 10,000 HIV cases, over the course of 10 years.

I ask all the families of my young patients if they are working, staying at home, or in school.

Help USA, a nonprofit, is moving forward with a $20 million redevelopment of the former General John Reynolds Public School in North Philadelphia.

Philadelphia street cleaners say the city’s street sweeping pilot is exposing them to health hazards.

Calling the issue a matter of public health, the group is proposing four bills that would require public restrooms to provide free pads and tampons to anyone who needs them.