Pennsylvania’s health department has cited state privacy laws that they say prohibit them from releasing more information.

The state has now reported four measles-related deaths amid a growing outbreak that has sickened nearly 700 people this year.

Experts say breakthrough measles cases in vaccinated people are possible, but rare.

The deaths are the first associated with the highly contagious disease in Pennsylvania in 35 years and occurred amid a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year.

Keeping score by hand is the best way to watch a baseball game and, to my eternal chagrin, hardly anyone does it anymore.

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Isolated instances of high winds primarily impacted parts of Philadelphia and Montgomery County, knocking down hundreds of trees within minutes.

A sudden, violent storm on Saturday afternoon sent vendors running for cover and damaged tents and merchandise at the long-running outdoor market in South Philadelphia.

The cases identified in Chester County this week are the first confirmed in the Philadelphia region since the winter.

Vaccination is the best defense against the highly contagious disease, health officials stressed at a Friday news conference in Lancaster.

The state health department is now recommending early measles vaccinations for infants in affected areas in an effort to protect them against the spread of the highly contagious disease.

Local doctors say they’re worried that even more cases are spreading under the radar in under-vaccinated pockets of Lancaster County, where 31 cases have been detected.

Local doctors say they’re worried that even more cases are spreading under the radar in under-vaccinated pockets of Lancaster County, where 31 cases have been detected.

Thousands of visitors, declining measles vaccine rates, and a growing number of cases poses an outbreak risk, experts say.

So far in 2026, Pennsylvania has seen 50 cases of measles - 38 linked to an ongoing outbreak in Lancaster and three nearby counties. The state saw 16 cases of measles in all of last year.

The comments come in the wake of investigations by both The Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that drew attention to how vulnerable children now are to measles.

“Overdoses are not going down for everyone,” said Daniel Teixeira da Silva, director of the Division of Substance Use Prevention and Harm Reduction at the city health department.

Health commissioner Palak Raval-Nelson and her counterparts in four other World Cup host cities discussed the health threats they’re focused on during the summer’s festivities.

At times on Tuesday, the panel of judges questioned the trust’s decision-making process, which has been criticized for a lack of transparency.

Depositions in legal cases shed new light on the way Philly and Penn treated bones pulled from the rubble 40 years ago.

Pennsylvania's laws make it easy for parents to opt-out of vaccines. We took a look at 1,800 schools to find communities most at risk.

When they leave the hospital, some homeless Philadelphians are still too sick to stay in a shelter. Medical respite beds fill the gap.

David Stein, surgeon-in-chief at Temple University Hospital, spoke to The Inquirer about how the appendix works, how appendicitis manifests, and what recovery looks like.

Brett Joseph Cohen has visited Ohio in recent weeks, finding pieces of a meteor that crossed the skies of northwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio.

"I do think that 'I have to go to a baseball game' should be an acceptable reason to take a sick day in Philadelphia."