Health

The legislation was inspired by 17-year-old Paul St. Pierre of Maple Shade.

Dr. Jessica Beard’s prior research found that reporting — particularly TV news — that focuses on single events often causes further harm to shooting victims.

The latest development comes after more than a year and a half of failed settlement negotiations in the federal civil case.

Local pharmacists are beginning to feel the weight of Rite Aid’s closures, and some might not be able to take on more patients.

Reports of an "outbreak" of some as yet unidentified canine respiratory illness are scaring dog owners. But veterinarians and researchers aren't panicking.

A CDC analysis of 2022 data finds that U.S. life expectancy is improving after being knocked backwards during the COVID emergency.

Last year, the CDC reported 6,461 COVID-related deaths in New Jersey, or about five times the number of people who died from the flu in the Garden State.

A family in Wilmington, Delaware, faced a looming deadline to get their son a new gene therapy treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia now houses a machine that is helping to make CAR T-cell therapy much less expensive.

Philly’s Community Doula Support Program launched in early 2020 in response to rising drug overdose deaths among pregnant and postpartum people.

Temple Health physicians are expanding a program to increase access to stool-based screening kits, an alternative to colonoscopies.

We look at the future of gene therapy — from stunning breakthroughs to obstacles that still stand in its way.

Anyone who did not order a batch of four COVID-19 tests in September can secure up to eight of them this time around starting Monday at COVIDtests.gov.

Despite the prevalence of autoimmune conditions, like the thyroid disease Hashimoto's, finding help can prove frustrating and expensive.

Though testing, screening, and treating lung cancer has improved in Pennsylvania, some residents are at risk of radon exposure, according to a report.