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The New Jersey Department of Health has finalized guidance for organized sports to resume next week, the department’s commissioner and Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday. The guidelines are for outdoor sports, which are the only type of sports that may resume at this time since “outdoor activities are the safest,” Murphy said. According to the governor, the department is...

A New Jersey hospital mistakenly gave a kidney transplant to the wrong patient who happens to have the same name as the intended recipient.

A widow is suing Maryland state officials after receiving the wrong remains for her husband who had donated his body to science.

Nearly 80 children from a North Philadelphia school were displaced this week after asbestos was detected in the building’s boiler room, according to a letter shared with parents.

The head of the Pennsylvania Department of Health has revoked Hahnemann University Hospital’s hospital license, and expressed concerns about how the shutdown of the building is progressing.

North Carolina health officials say a fourth person has died from Legionnaires’ disease. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Resources said in a statement on Friday that its Division of Public Health has confirmed 141 cases involving residents from counties and multiple states. In addition to the deaths, 94 people were hospitalized. Information gathered by local health officials showed...

New Jersey is in the grips of a now monthslong Hepatitis A outbreak, with confirmed cases up 800 percent year-over-year, according to the newest state health statistics.

After weeks of uncertainty after asbestos was discovered inside their shared building, students from two Philadelphia high schools returned to classes in new locations Monday.

Anyone who visited certain terminals at the Philadelphia International Airport on Oct. 2 and 3 may have been exposed to measles, state health officials warned Friday.

School district headquarters, a synagogue and a former charter school are going to be the temporary home for students forced out of their shared Philadelphia high school building by asbestos.

Two Philadelphia schools will stay closed “indefinitely” due to asbestos that was found during renovations, Superintendent William Hite said Friday afternoon.

Pennsylvania has announced its first vaping-related death as health officials urge people not to vape amid dozens of lung injury cases.

The death of a woman in northern New Jersey is being reported as the first death in the state associated with vaping, health officials announced Tuesday.

A pair of Philadelphia schools will remain closed after asbestos was found during renovations last week.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing to enact a statewide ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes amid growing health concerns connected to vaping, especially among young people.

The son of reggae legend Bob Marley and a Colorado firm have applied to open a medical marijuana dispensary in New Jersey.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Wednesday are expected to tour the water distribution centers that came under fire the day before for handing out “expired” bottled water to residents who can’t use their tap water due to elevated lead levels.

The governor of New Jersey and the mayor of Newark have vowed to provide bottled water to city residents with lead service lines after tests indicate filters may not be protecting them against elevated lead levels.

Northeast Philadelphia residents living on Howland Street lost count of how many rodents they’ve seen just this summer, though one woman estimated she killed at least 10 on her own.

A North Carolina man has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a manmade lake at a water park, officials said Wednesday. The state Department of Health and Human Resources said in a news release that the infection was caused by the amoeba naturally present in warm freshwater during the summer. The unnamed person became sick after swimming...