Pennsylvania public schools still may be grappling with the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, according to a national report on reading and math proficiency among fourth grade and eighth grade students.

Physicians say a measles inoculation rate of roughly 95% achieves herd immunity. Pike and Wayne fall short by some of Pa.'s widest margins.

The Pennsylvania fourth graders tested — kindergartners at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — scored lower in both reading and math than fourth graders tested in 2019.

Most counties in Pennsylvania don’t have their own health departments. A study shows that matters for residents.

Child care costs have continued to rise year after year, ballooning 20% since 2019. Prices are highest in the state’s major population centers, Philadelphia and Allegheny counties, where families pay over $12,

Experts say most cities are seeing a drop in crime levels that spiked during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But they say misleading campaign rhetoric in the runup to the November elections and changes in how people interpret news about crime have led ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.

who lives in Western Pennsylvania. She misses feeling well enough to play with her 9-year-old son or attend her 17-year-old son’s baseball games. Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the covid-19 pandemic has been described as a mass ...

Researchers say the number of Americans who support letting parents choose whether to vaccinate their children has grown since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Four viruses are going around in what some have called a quad-demic.  They are flu, COVID-19, norovirus, and RSV. Several viruses have been on the rise since November, the CDC said. Pennsylvania is considered to have a high rate of respiratory illnesses.

Seven in 10 US adults support requiring schoolchildren to be vaccinated against infectious diseases such as measles, and over half also say states should ban students unvaccinated students from attending public or private schools, although support for this prohibition has been eroding since before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey reveals.

Across Pennsylvania, 94% of kindergartners had received 2 or more doses of the measles vaccine for the 2023-2024 school year, a 4-year drop of 1.5%.