Increasing cases of respiratory illness across central Pennsylvania prompted at least one hospital system to revisit its masking policy, urging visitors to mask up to prevent further spread.

Public health experts say there are ways to protect yourself and those around you from contracting and spreading the flu.

Flu activity begins to increase in October and often peaks between December and February, according to the Centers for ...

Laboratory-confirmed influenza cases jumped from about 500 at the beginning of December to more than 9,500 at the beginning of February.

The HCMC Department of Health is urging everyone visiting medical facilities to wear masks as a precaution during an ongoing ...

UPMC said that patients visitors, support persons, and staff will be required to wear masks in patient care areas.

A surge in flu-related hospitalization across western Pennsylvania – the highest statewide since 2010 – has some health centers reintroducing mask mandates. Others, including officials at Chan ...

People visiting UPMC hospitals and health care offices should plan on wearing a mask, effective Wednesday. Affiliates of the ...

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), one of the largest hospital systems in the United States, is reinstating ...

Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see ...

The first probable human case of Bird Flu was reported by the Ohio Department of Health Wednesday. A man who works at a Mercer County farm was in contact with dead commercial poultry and was infected ...

Arkansas is battling flu season, with the Arkansas Department of Health reporting 30 flu-related deaths.One of those deaths ...