Health

Delaware is the 12th state to spot the invasive Asian longhorned tick.

New Jersey is now the eighth state, plus the District of Columbia, to allow terminally ill patients to acquire lethal medication to end their lives.

It weakens an import ban that has stood as a symbol of the political clout of the pharmaceutical industry.

Because the hospital real estate is owned separately from its business, some worry that its for-profit owner will sell to developers and come out ahead.

On the last day for most of the residents, one doctor-in-training bids farewell to the 171-year-old teaching hospital at Broad and Vine Streets.

The likelihood of accidental OD is severely overhyped.

Happiness, says one researcher, is the sum of many positive moments throughout the day. Something as simple as a friendly chat in the elevator can boost your mood.

They work with patients to decide when genetic testing is appropriate, interpret test results and counsel families on the ways hereditary diseases might impact them.

Worldwide, childhood cancers are relatively rare, but they're a far bigger problem than previously believed. Close to half of all kids with cancer go undiagnosed and untreated

Residents want the city to deal with the issue of human feces, which transmits the disease.

A “Hire Hahnemann” job fair Thursday brought about 190 employers to the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Not all pay as well as the hospital.

Bayhealth and Beebe hospitals have made their case for stand-alone emergency departments in the Georgetown, Delaware, area

The owner of the hospital, which plans to close, announces it will free up the federal dollars trainee doctors need to seek employment elsewhere.

For Drexel University Physicians staff and their families who take classes, the planned layoffs and shift to Tower Health may mean end to free tuition.

Philadelphia officials said the death of a man in his 70s in West Philadelphia on Saturday was attributed to the heat, when temperatures hit 97 degrees.