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The county will lose yet another emergency room, the second in a month, and its only inpatient behavioral health facility on Monday.

People who get infected with omicron are less likely to go to the hospital, go on a ventilator or die. But hospitals are still struggling to treat the huge volume of patients.

Now omicron is estimated to account for nearly all the virus circulating in the nation.

A Dec. 28 letter says Tower failed to provide Chester County Emergency Medical Services with “accurate, ongoing communication.”

State Rep. Baumbach has been trying to get his bill passed since 2015. The Medical Society of Delaware has dropped its opposition, but plenty of foes remain.

For a Philadelphia physician, rest seemed out of the question during the early part of the pandemic. But she learned an important lesson about the need to slow down.

Parents continue to feel the precariousness of careers and routines dependent on reliable child care during an ever-ongoing pandemic.

It's a sibling of the first omicron variant that swept the world. Is it more contagious? Does it cause severe disease? Will it keep current omicron surges going? Researchers a

Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC is asking a Chester County judge to put a pause on Tower Health’s closure of Brandywine and Jennersville hospitals.

If City Council passes the bill and it becomes law, the Philadelphia Beverage Tax would disappear on July 1, the first day of the city’s next fiscal year.

The mandate is first taking effect first in jurisdictions that didn’t challenge the requirement in court.

The funding is aimed to help keep burned-out health care workers on board during a staffing crisis.

One lawsuit out of Montgomery County says axing mask policies forces parents of medically fragile school children to pull their children out of in-person learning.

The company announced Wednesday that the first participant had received a dose. Earlier this week, competitor Pfizer began a similar study of its own reformulated shots.

COVID-19 numbers are down 75% from two weeks ago, suggesting the winter surge has peaked. But the pandemic is not over, officials warn.