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.

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%.

The map of flu activity across the United States continues to darken, both figuratively and literally, as case numbers spike upward in most states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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

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

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.

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

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Fourth-grade student scores in Ohio on a test known as the Nation’s Report Card show little improvement since the COVID-19 pandemic. And in some areas, they are worse or have not ...

It was 2021, a year into the coronavirus pandemic, and as he slid into a ... Wallace, a University of Pennsylvania geneticist ...