Health

Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis.

They hope to help OB-GYNs and other health providers closely monitor a mother and baby's health so that red flags can be assessed before they are life-threatening.

Lawyers for Safehouse will lay out how the supervised injection facility would operate. It’s the first hearing since federal prosecutors filed suit.

Some South Jersey blueberry farms were recently cited for illegally housing migrant workers in sheds without proper septic systems — for years.

People with drug-resistant tuberculosis take many pills over a long period of time. Cure rate is low.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has confirmed 15 cases of patients who were admitted to Wisconsin hospitals with severe lung injury since July.

Doctors warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid.

The state has developed a demographic snapshot of those who died of drug overdoses in 2017. It will be used to try to reduce future opioid-related deaths.

Playing doesn't end with childhood. It's important for adults too, just in a different way.

There’s still a striking disparity between neighborhoods across the city.

Navigating the world as a young transgender person can be challenging. That’s true even in places some might think it’s safe, like the health-care system.

A new study published today in JAMA finds that long-term exposure to slightly elevated levels of air pollution is linked to accelerated development of lung damage.

For the fourth consecutive week, a Barnegat Bay beach in northern Long Beach Island is under a swimming advisory due to excessive fecal bacteria, officials said.

The change widens the definition of “public charge” to mean people here legally who get public benefits like Medicaid, food stamps, and housing vouchers.

According to federal law, doctors must apply for a special waiver from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to prescribe buprenorphine.