Health

We asked outspoken doctors and health advocates to give us their Top 7 messages to women for 2020. Here's what they said.

Medicaid recipients in Pennsylvania could be in for a surprise on their next trip to the pharmacy as preferred drug list changes.

Nearly 1 in 4 Americans has trouble affording prescription drugs, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

We explore the history and future of reproductive technologies and the thorny questions that arise around women’s bodies, fertility, and having children.  

New research finds opioid overdose deaths could increase by as much as 85% in counties where auto plants close.

Running, biking, weightlifting, swimming — for lots of people, working out is an important part of life. It’s about our health — me ...

Arcadia University researchers tested snapper soup served at 20 restaurants in Philadelphia and found elevated lead and zinc.

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.