Health

Every day, 130 Americans die from opioid overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Insurance companies pay in lump sums instead of per patient, so rural hospitals can afford to keep patients from getting sick in the first place.

The state says the regulations will cut down on health-care costs, but many physicians are concerned they could harm patient care.

There's more to being a good doctor than providing medical care to your patients. Sometimes that lesson comes at the darkest time of year.

For many Americans, hallucinogens still evoke the psychedelic '60s, bringing to mind the sex-and-drugs lifestyle of the hippie counterculture.

Thanksgiving leftovers are a distant memory, and December's extra travel, shopping and family commitments are already straining nerves, budgets and immune systems.

Decades before she became a liberal firebrand, Elizabeth Warren was a registered Republican. Why her time at Rutgers and Penn helped spark her political shift.

Thomas Jefferson University entered into a binding agreement Wednesday with Temple University under which Jefferson will acquire Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Residents are also encouraged to keep the boxes stocked. Officials say to leave non-perishable, canned goods, and personal care items (excluding sharp objects and chemicals).

The Federal Trade Commission and European regulators cleared Roche's proposed $4.3 billion purchase of Spark Therapeutics.

Ann Jones tried everything short of surgery for her chronic migraines, which have plagued her since she was a child.

For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind of end that most people want.

You know what they say — all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And science seems to confirm that statement, with findings that pl ...

Children would need a doctor’s note to attend class without getting shots. The proposal could go before full Senate vote Monday.

Twelve people overdosed in Berks County over the weekend. Three of them died.