Health

With 1,200 overdose-related deaths in 2017, Philadelphia is suffering some of the worst effects of the nation’s opioid crisis.

The first large-scale, national study of transgender children, including some as young as 3, is poised to expand.

This is a transcript of our "Make (a) Way" episode.

Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.

Andrea Avery was a piano whiz kid until she developed rheumatoid arthritis at age 12. The disease symptoms can leave her feeling able-bodied one day, disabled the next.

Matt Roda of Lancaster County was a junior in high school when a single hockey game changed his entire life.

Since 2008, the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome has doubled in the Garden State.

In the U.S., we’re engaging in a method of eugenics by reducing populations of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.

Delaware's flu season is not over as evidenced by three new flu-related deaths reported by the Delaware Division of Public Health.

Hospitals around the country are looking at whether patients need so many opioids prescriptions. It turns out most of them don't.

A new nutrition course for students at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine meets in the kitchen.

New Jersey governor says he won't spend any funds on public service ads featuring himself. Former Gov. Chris Christie appeared in such commercials.

Many doctors and students hide disabilities out of a real 'fear of judgment, bias, and skewed perception of ability,' a report finds.

You know what they say — when the going gets tough, the tough get going. But what are the factors that decide whether we bend or break? ...

Seventeen-year-old Sophia Angelica Delgado Feliciano says for a long time she used emotional distance as a survival tool.