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On a good day in the emergency room where we work, patients might expect to wait four or five hours, including evaluation and treatment before they are sent upstairs to a bed.

Lawmakers and the governor opted to create their own exchange because it’s likely to save the commonwealth money.

Groups that provide mental health and intellectual disabilities services are lobbying for an additional $84 million in funding.

Nationally, postpartum depression affects one in seven mothers.

The department says some companies may be selling short-term, limited duration plans, while other callers are falsely claiming to be from the state.

The state says the new collaboration with Google will smooth the internet hunt for information about substance-use treatment and other resources in Delaware.

The issue has divided nurses, confounded voters, and prompted a multimillion-dollar backlash by the hospital industry. Even research on the impact of ratio laws has been split

School nurses now have to add shooter drills and concussion protocols to the day-to-day responsibilities that come with tending to the health needs of students.

The roles of nurses have changed and expanded a lot in recent decades. Nurses are highly specialized, they have branched out into new are ...

There's probably a biological explanation for the intensity of the sibling bond.

How to keep stressful dietary discussions off the holiday menu.

Growing up, my friends and I took for granted that we would always see each other the night before the holiday. Until we couldn’t.

Studies are accumulating showing the teen brain, consistently plied with alcohol, won’t reach maturity and damaged genetic material may be passed on.

The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania is suing a Philadelphia pharmacy for outing a woman as transgender and HIV-positive to her neighbors.

Like adults, teens drink to escape and numb pain, but with little regard for how they might hurt their brains in the process.