Public Health

Pa. Republicans are pushing an amendment that would keep courts from intervening in attempts to restrict abortion. It just cleared its first big hurdle.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to protect access to abortion as he faced mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject.

A resident traveling out-of-state is Camden County’s first confirmed monkeypox case. They are isolated at home and being treated.

Digital privacy advocates are encouraging abortion seekers to err on the side of caution. Text messages, browser histories and emails could be used in criminal investigations.

Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, often makes the baseless allegation that one of Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID policies caused more deaths.

An hourslong manhunt during which residents hunkered down in businesses or received police escorts to their homes ended with a traffic stop and brief chase Monday evening.

Rutgers researchers are on a mission to recruit “citizen scientists” as part of NJ Ticks 4 Science.

As July Fourth approaches, federal regulators are warning people to use fireworks safely, as a new report shows that fireworks-related injuries have been increasing.

The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had given some abortion clinics confidence to resume performing abortions.

The legislation moved swiftly in the Democrat-led Legislature, just a week after the Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

Any attempt to amend the Pa. constitution bypasses the governor and goes to a referendum, which often passes easily as it draws little attention at the polls.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Temple Health, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and others will provide the funds over the course of the next two years.

The measure is a strategic counterpunch to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has taken away the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.

Biden has been reluctant to support changes to the filibuster, which allows any member of the 100-member chamber to block action on legislation unless it receives 60 votes.

Nobody wants to infect their friends and friendly, but do you really have to keep isolating at day 12, 13 or beyond?