Public Health

A recent CHOP study shows mortality rates and chronic conditions have increased for young kids - obesity, sleep disturbances, pain, mental health issues, even early puberty.

The settlement brings the total recovered in the 2016 class action suit to more than $90 million. Three other companies settled for more than $65 million in 2021.

The symptoms can include nerve pain, emotional numbness and sexual dysfunction and can last for years after stopping the drugs.

A marathon negotiation session between the city of Philadelphia and its blue collar workers' union Tuesday has resulted in a tentative contract agreement.

The highest concentrations of PFAS were detected in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

When temperatures spiked last month, so did air pollution. Here’s why.

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in archeologists who discovered King Tut’s tomb.

Philadelphia municipal workers are on strike for a third day, meaning decreased city services and no trash pickup. Will DC 33 and Mayor Cherelle Parker come to an agreement?

Landlords would be required to certify their properties are lead-free, or safe from the toxin.

Regulations demanding Delaware water providers test for PFAS would take effect a year before federal requirements.

Under a deferred prosecution agreement, the federal government may drop the criminal charges if the district complies with federal law.

The court rejected a challenge from Christian employers to the Affordable Care Act's preventive health care coverage requirement that affects some 150 million Americans.

Surveyed workers report experiencing headaches, fatigue, nausea, confusion and even seizures when indoor temperatures regularly reach 80 degrees or above.

Temperatures in the area could hit 100 degrees Tuesday for the first time since 2012.

Veolia’s plant in Stanton previously detected PFAS levels above federal regulations.