Public Health

Philadelphia Energy Solutions said Saturday that workers are trying to isolate the remaining line, but access is limited.

Mayor Jim Kenney has convened a working group to examine safety and air quality protocols at the South Philadelphia refinery rocked by a massive explosion on Friday.

Residents in Eastwick live next to the single largest generator of particulate emission air pollution in Philadelphia.

Being aware of noise in your child’s environment is important for hearing and cognitive development, studies show. Apps can help identify quiet spaces.

In the same way your voice is louder in a smaller room, sounds are amplified in a child’s smaller ear, says a Children’s Hospital audiologist.

Deaths connected to suicide, drugs, and alcohol are soaring among millennials nationwide, and hitting Pennsylvania especially hard.

A Senate bill would phase out the foams on military installations by the end of 2023, but a House proposal wouldn’t do so until 2029.

A bill requiring all Philly rental units built before 1978 to be free of lead was up for a final vote — until it’s sponsor suddenly pulled it from the agenda.

The FDA tested 91 meat, dairy, grain, and produce samples, and found PFAS in 10 of them.

Efforts to limit opioid prescriptions are leading some patients to use more dangerous drugs.

Around 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain.

The poll comes as several states have pushed to limit abortions in hopes of getting the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue.

It’s the latest salvo in the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis in New Jersey, which saw more than 3,100 drug-overdose deaths last year.

Vaccines worry a lot of parents. Pediatricians understand that, but they worry we’ve forgotten just how sick kids can get without the shots.

We discuss PFAS, compounds used in cookware, carpeting and upholstery, food wrappers, and firefighting foam, the health risks they pose and the challenges regulating them.