Pennsylvania public schools still may be grappling with the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, according to a national report ...

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

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

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

Researchers say the number of Americans who support letting parents choose whether to vaccinate their children has grown ...

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%.

Could cardiac patients soon be able to get needed treatment from the comfort of their homes? A bill is being introduced looking to do that.

Toothless guidelines, inadequate testing and long delays in releasing data — echoes of the missteps during the Covid-19 pandemic ... at the University of Pennsylvania.

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including ...

Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a mass disabling event.

Palms-based private hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings Inc., which operates 16 hospitals in four states, filed for ...

Seven in 10 US adults support requiring schoolchildren to be vaccinated against infectious diseases such as measles, and over ...